Lamp with a Rag Wick
This lamp has the remains of the linen rags that were soaked in flammable oil and lit. It was found in a pit dug into the Sankhare Temple site at Thebes. The pit had been used and reused from the Second Intermediate Period onward, with the final and only intact burial being that of Iotefamun (26.3.1a,b), which dates to Dynasty 21. The lamp might date either to workers at his burial or to those who had moved and removed burials over the long preceding period.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lamp with a Rag Wick
- Period: Third Intermediate Period or earlier
- Dynasty: Dynasty 21
- Date: 1070–945 BC or earlier
- Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Unfinished Temple ("Seankhkare") Valley, Pit Tomb MMA 1008/1016 (Mond 8), MMA excavations, 1920–21
- Medium: Pottery, cloth
- Dimensions: H. 5.5 × Dia. 17 cm (2 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1925
- Object Number: 25.3.180a, b
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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