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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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] |
| 10004 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Lamp Ordinary flat shell type At the tip of the spout the metal is bent into a coil On the base inscr. "Mes-Kalam-dug" |
| 10024A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Lamps Silver, two were found, one inside the other: the outer lamp completely decayed, the inner in good condition. |
| 10175 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp In imitation of a shell; with shallow trough spout Type __ |
| 10325 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp With trough spout Shaped in imitation of a shell Normal type |
| 10451 | (none) | (none) | B17692 | Gold Lamp bowl with sloped straight sides rising from a ridge foot, with narrow carinated rim: from the rim projects a trough spout. (orig. circular, now bent) | |
| 10463 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Lamp Usual shell type Type 115 (new) |
| 10565 | (none) | (none) | B17280 | Copper Lamp usual shell type | |
| 10746 | (none) | (none) | B16919, B17087 | Calcite Lamp Translucent. White Decorated with a man-headed couchant bull in relief. Head horned and bearded. Beard, mane, and all hairy portions of body painted black. Much of paint remains and has been preserved. | |
| 10820D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. (A)[A and G] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. 1-broken and part missing. (B) [B and H] 2 cockle shells with green paint (both broken) (C) Broken silver finger ring, 4 strands of wire, the 2 middle strands spiral. Part missing. (D) Large shell of the type used to serve as a lamp. Badly broken. (E) Few silver double conoids, a few lapis and remains of glazed frit ring beads. (F) A copper pin with a copper ball head. Badly broken. Type V. |
| 10886 | (none) | (none) | B17081 | Silver Lamp Usual type: in good condition | |
| 10974 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Lamp. Normal type, but unusually large, the top and end hopelessly decayed. |
| 11225 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp and Bowl. Corroded together. Lamp: head end slightly broken, normal shell type. |
| 11517 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp. |
| 11569 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp. Usual shell shape. One side badly broken & parts of it missing: otherwise well preserved. |
| 11597A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. [A](1) Shell, cut as a lamp & engraved with the head & neck of a bird (the eye orginally inlaid but inlay is missing) [drawing] [B](2) Copper Dagger (broken). Type IV; [C](3) Copper pin with lapis ball head (broken)[Type] V. |
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