Editing Oil lamp (section)

==Components==
[[Image:Oil lamp Fandaqomiyah.jpg|thumb|Double-nozzled [[terracotta]] oil lamp found in [[Samaria]]]]

The following are the main external parts of a [[terra-cotta]] lamp:
; Shoulder
; Pouring hole
: The hole through which fuel is put inside the fuel chamber. The width generally ranges from {{cvt|0.5|–|5|cm|in|1}}. There may be one hole or multiple holes.
; Wick hole and the nozzle
: May be either an opening in the body of the lamp or an elongated nozzle. In some specific types of lamps, there is a groove on the top of the nozzle that runs along to the pouring hole to re-collect the oozing oil from the wick.
; Handle
: Lamps can come with a handle. The handle can come in different shapes. The most common is a ring-shaped for the forefinger surmounted by a [[palmette]], on which the thumb is pressed to stabilize the lamp. Other handles can be crescent-shaped, triangular, or oval-shaped. The handleless lamps usually have an elongated nozzle, and sometimes have a [[Lug (knob)|lug]] rising diagonally from the periphery. The lug may act as a small handle where the thumb rests. Some lugs are pierced. It was speculated that pierced lugs were used to place a pen or straw, called the {{langx|la|acus}} or {{lang|la|festuca}}, with which the wick was trimmed. Others think that the pierced lugs were used to hang the lamp on a metal hook when not in use.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}
; Discus
; Fuel chamber
: The fuel reservoir. The mean volume in a typical terra-cotta lamp is {{cvt|20|cc|mL}}.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}