Unlike the glass lamps this metal lamp would have given off little light apart from the shadows cast through its openwork base. As with the Iznik lamps oꦺf the sixteenth-century their function was symbolic rather than as a source of light. It has been suggested that they were also used as an acoustic device; hung near the place where prayers were read, helping dampen the echo by allowing the voice of the reader to bounce off them🌞 (Atasoy and Raby 1989, p.41).