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lamp, oil

human history
  • Description

    lamp, oil. The object is a small circular oil lamp with a long nozzle. There is a medium sized wick hole and the nozzle end is flared. The filling hole is medium sized and centrally placed in a undecorated discus. The shoulder has a lines radiating from the discus with indefinable blobs on either side. There is a column design on the nozzle. The lamp is very worn with a dark almost black fabric. There is no handle and the mould join is rough.

  • Place
    Unknown
  • Accession Number
    1928.237
  • Accession Date
    1928
  • Other Id

    2745 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Archaeology

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  • lamp, oil, 1928.237, 2745, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1928.237, 2745, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1928.237, 2745, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1928.237, 2745, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1928.237, 2745, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1928.237, 2745, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1928.237, 2745, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1928.237, 2745, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • lamp, oil, 1928.237, 2745, Photographed by Richard Ng, digital, 23 Jul 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY

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