Oil lamp

Details

• Title

  Oil lamp

• Associated place

  Asia › Iraq › Nineveh Governorate › Nineveh (place of excavation)

• Date

  6000 BC - 500 AD

• Material and technique

  clay

• Object type

  lighting equipment › lamp › oil-lamp

• Dimensions

  4 x 9 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum, 1932.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1932.1119

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