Lamps
This category includes objects containing oil for burning.
This category includes objects containing oil for burning. They they have a place for a wick, and are used to light rooms.
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 19745 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster lamp. In the form of a shell. The five projections serving as spouts. On the under side at one end is carved a bat's head. |
| 19770 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster lamp. |
| 19805 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone lamp. Alabaster. [drawing] |
| 19874 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bird's head. Hard limestone (perhaps for a shell lamp?) [drawing 1:1] Style of Royal Tombs |
| 19885 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone lamp. White limestone. Hemispherical bowl. On one side a short ledge handle, on the other a short spout, and on back side a double length spout. A line of raised square dots round the outside. |
| 2780A | (none) | 1927,1003.132 | (none) | Pottery vases. Buff ware: widely splayed lip and pointed below baseline. A. is reconstructed, B. fragmentary. Type CXLIII = L.107. Larsa period. Found associates with U.2781 and U.2782. ? No (10) etc. L.5. (6) | |
| 3057 | (none) | 1927,1003.243 | (none) | Fragment of engraved shell. Curved and engraved with flower pattern. |
| 3333 | 29-174-25 | (none) | (none) | Lamp. Fragmentary. Glazed pottery: stem broken: glaze of buff color with tracks of bluish green. Sectional sketch 1:2. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 6138 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lamp holder? White shell. Shell shaped with curved handle. B. |
| 6924 | (none) | 1927,0527.301 | (none) | Lamp. Baked clay. Reddish. Thick spout at bottom of bowl, slightly upturned. Persian? Or Neo-Babylonian. E. ? | |
| 7007 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lamp. Bronze? Funnel shaped bowl with long spout issuing from bottom 3 small perforated handles, 2 on back, one on spout - for suspension. Persian? B. [drawing 1:2] |
| 8313 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell duck The body is made of a large shell cut open : the head is a pink limestone & was fixed on with a peg through a hole in the top end of the shell : round the top end of the shell, imitating the bird's breast colours, is incrustation, diamonds and triangles of lapis lazuli and shell set in bitumen. Some of the tesserae are loose and are preserved. [drawing] | |
| 8450 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper ladle? or lamp In imitation of shell? with lip spout and wooden flooring inside single roll of copper at end of spout. Broken and mended. Portion of sides missing. [drawing] not to scale |
| 8679 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Large shell. Cut as a lamp or ladle with a bird's head above the opening. |
| 8902 | (none) | 1928,1009.186 | (none) | Silver lamp. Base silver, in form of shell. [drawing] |
| 9885 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp Imitation of shell with hollow trough spout [drawing] |
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