oval lamp

An item at Louvre

Oval-shaped, handleless frog lamp. Decorated with an incised circle surrounding the feed hole, three pointed semicircles, and lines. A spike of corn is decorated on the reverse. Blackened earth.

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

The collections of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities present the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile, from the end of Prehistory (around 4,000 BCE) to the Christian era (from the 4th century CE).

Louvre