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Antique bronze oil lamp with Christian symbol (replica)

An oil lamp is a device used for lighting or for preserving a flame that is fueled by animal, vegetable or mineral oil.

The term often refers to ancient pottery and metal designs – the kind one might rub in hopes of summoning a Genie (as in the tale of Aladdin). "Rubbing a lamp" was a common household chore to clean and polish it.

Sometimes the term "oil lamp" is applied to the modern kerosene lamp as well.

In ancient Greece and Rome, lamps were fueled by olive oil; in ancient India, by ghee; in ancient Persia, by petroleum that was found oozing freely from the ground.

Antique Greek oil lamp (replica)

Olive oil lamps continued in wide use in countries around the Mediterranean Sea well into the 19th century, with the lamps being mass produced out of metal (most commonly brass or bronze), but otherwise little changed in design from lamps of some 2,000 years earlier. In small towns and rural areas they continued in use well into the 20th century. The light given by an olive oil lamp is significantly brighter than a candle, but significantly less than a kerosene or paraffin burning lamp.

Oil lamps are sometimes made out of strange objects; for instance, there exist oil lamps produced from U.S. Army Surplus grenades. They are available in New York City, New York in the United States and in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [1] People have been stopped at Dutch customs for possessing these hand grenade oil lamps.

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Sources of light / lighting:
Natural/prehistoric light sources:	Bioluminescence \| Celestial objects \| Lightning \| Polar auroras
Combustion-based light sources:	Acetylene/Carbide lamps \| Candles \| Davy lamps \| Fire \| Gas lighting \| Kerosene lamps \| Lanterns \| Limelights \| Oil lamps \| Rushlights
Direct chemical light sources:	Chemoluminescence (Lightsticks)
Nuclear light sources:	Self-powered lighting \| Cherenkov radiation
Electric light sources:	Arc lamps \| Incandescent light bulbs \| Fluorescent lamps
High-intensity discharge light sources:	Ceramic Discharge Metal Halide lamps \| HMI lamps \| Mercury-vapor lamps \| Metal halide lamps \| Sodium vapor lamps \| Xenon arc lamps
Other light sources:	Blacklight lamps \| Carbon button lamp \| Electroluminescent (EL) lamps \| Globar \| Hollow cathode lamp \| Inductive lighting \| Lasers \| Discrete LEDs/Solid State Lighting (LEDs) \| Neon and argon lamps \| Nernst lamp \| Sonoluminescence \| Sulfur lamp \| Synchrotron \| Xenon flash lamps \| Yablochkov candles

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