This 'lamp house' is a pottery box (essentially a lantern) to hold a small oil lamp. The lamp nozzle would protrude from the open doorway at the front. The sides of the box imitate a  tiny temple with low-relief columns and an architectural frieze at the top. The sides and and pyramid-shaped top were probably made in a two-part mould and there is a top lug with hole for suspension. Made of brown to grayish-brown Nile Valley clay.