There have been more than a thousand clay oil lamp fragments from the Greco-Roman era found all throughout Egypt. Among the many lamps discovered, a few rectangular clay oil lamps were noted. This article examines a unique multi-nozzle rectangular oil lamp that was discovered during Bahnassa's archaeological dig and is currently on display at the Mallawi Museum. Among instances from the Roman Period, this lamp is relatively unique and belongs to a rare kind of oil lamp.

During the Roman era, the Egyptians used lamps for a variety of purposes, including funeral furnishings, offerings in temples, illumination in homes, public spaces, or festive occasions. Throughout the Mediterranean, multi-nozzle lamps that adhere to well-known Hellenistic and Roman typologies are prevalent. The article is extremely representative of the Egyptian manufacturing of this style of lamp in many nozzles, and it comes from the collections of museums - a corpus of rectangular lamps discovered all over the country.

Clarifying the design and use of this sort of multi-nozzle rectangular oil lamp is one of the goals of this article. So, the paper will compare the Mallawi museum lamp to the display of four Egyptian rectangular oil lamps with several nozzles.