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Oil Lamp
A traditional oil lamp
Oil Lamp Christian Symbol
Traditional oil lamp with a Christian symbol

An oil lamp is a lamp used for lighting by burning oil. Usually, it produces a flame by burning olive oil, or another vegetable oil, or whale oil during the 1700s and 1800s. They burned cleaner, with less smoke, than candles and other sources of light before electricity.

The lamps were usually made of pottery or metal or glass. An old story in the 1001 Nights has Aladdin cleaning (rubbing the lamp) and making a Genie appear.

Late in the 19th century, those lamps were mostly replaced by kerosene lamps.

Images for kids

  • Group of ancient hellenistic an roan oil lamps

    Group of ancient lamps (Hellenistic and Roman)

  • DiwaliOilLampCrop

    Simple contemporary Indian clay oil lamp during Diwali

  • Wahaya sukunda

    Sukunda oil lamp of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

  • Korea-Horongbul-01

    Oil lamp of Korea

  • Oil lamp Fandaqomiyah

    Double-nozzled terracotta oil lamp found in Samaria

  • Three Oil Jews lamps from Sardegna MUSEO NAZIONA SANNA SASSARI

    Jewish terracotta oil lamps from Sardinia in the Museo Nazionale Sanna, Sassari

  • Saint Mercurius, bishop of Smolensk

    Oil lamp burning before the icon of St. Mercurius of Smolensk, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine

  • Paavai-vilakku8

    Paavai vilakku: brass oil lamp from Tamil Nadu in the image of Andal

  • Deepalakshmi56

    A Deepalakshmi oil lamp from Kumbakonam

  • Malaysian god shrine

    Traditional Chinese shrine in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, containing an oil lamp

  • 千灯馆新石器时代石灯

    Neolithic stone lamps in the Thousand Lamp Museum in Qiandeng, Kunshan, Suzhou

  • Descriptive booklet on the Alaska historical museum (1922) (14758775556)

    Seal oil lamps

  • Terracotta lamp MET DP869

    Terracotta lamp

  • Oil Lamp J 1

    A terracotta oil lamp of the Roman Imperial era (replica)

  • Late-antique-oil-lamp

    A late antique oil lamp showing a human figure identified as Christ.

  • Beja51

    Early Islamic oil lamps (11th century), found in Southern Portugal

  • Hanging Lamps 1

    Lamps in a temple at Wayanad, Kerala, India

  • Diya

    A basic earthen oil lamp used for Diwali

  • Lighting-a-lamp

    Lighting of a Kuthuvilakku

See also

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