Lamp with a Rag Wick

Third Intermediate Period or earlier

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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 Itamun (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.

Lamp with a Rag Wick, Pottery, cloth

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Lamp with a Rag Wick, Pottery, cloth
Lamp with a Rag Wick, Pottery, cloth
Lamp with a Rag Wick, Pottery, cloth
Lamp with a Rag Wick, Pottery, cloth
Lamp with a Rag Wick, Pottery, cloth

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