The Lamps in Ancient Egypt, with Unpublished Lamps in Mallawy Museum in Egypt | ||
| حولية الاتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب "دراسات فى آثار الوطن العربى" | ||
| Article 94, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-57 PDF (3.89 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/cguaa.2011.298006 | ||
| Author | ||
| مرزوق السيد أمين | ||
| قسم الاثار المصرية/ كلية الاداب/ جامعة اسيوط | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Light was very important in ancient Egypt as it was in the entire world. It has served the principal utilitarian function of illuminating dark spaces. It has a divine function because of its apotropaic power. Light was a symbol of purity and goodness, hence ancient Egyptians used torches, and then manufactured lamps to illuminate tombs, temples and houses. Lamps differed from one another in size, form, and the material from which they were made. Vegetable oils such as olive, sesame, and castor-oil, as well as animal fat, were used as fuel for lamps. The lamps, which date back to the ancient Egyptian dynasties age, were not of a great number and they are not really known. That is because either they were not discovered or even not classified as lamps. But by coming of the Greco-Roman period, these lamps existed as an idea inspired from ancient Egypt, even many of its designs were the same as what was used in ancient Egypt, and most of these lamps are peculiar to Egypt in form and design. In this paper, the researcher will try to publish the unpublished collection of lamps that are exhibited in Mallawy Museum at El-Menia governorate, Egypt from number 536 to number 556 | ||
| Keywords | ||
| The Lamps; Mallawy Museum in Egypt | ||
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