This elegant triple lamp is finely carved, engraved and polished from a single block of alabaster.
The central cup in the middle in the shape of a lotus flower, rises on a long stem.
Surrounding the central cup; two smaller cups resemble a bud on zigzag legs, and each has a leaf spread horizontally, as if floating on the surface of the water. !!
These cups contained floating wicks on the fuel, which had effects inside the cups.
The lamp was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
The lamp is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.The young king's lamp !!
This elegant triple lamp is finely carved, engraved and polished from a single block of alabaster.
The central cup in the middle in the shape of a lotus flower, rises on a long stem.
Surrounding the central cup; two smaller cups resemble a bud on zigzag legs, and each has a leaf spread horizontally, as if floating on the surface of the water. !!
These cups contained floating wicks on the fuel, which had effects inside the cups.
The lamp was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
The lamp is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
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