Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Circular Design and Conical Handle

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Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Circular Design and Conical Handle

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: fine with some inclusions. Munsell: 5 YR 6/6 reddish yellow
height 2.7 cm
length 6.4 cm
width 4.2 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #194, PSU 043 (72)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This small, pink, slipper-shaped lamp has small circles w/ dotted centers as decoration. The pierced fill hole is in a recess which extends to the slanted, pierced wick hole. The handle is conical. There is evidence of a black paint having once decorated this lamp. Shape: Almond-shaped lamp with slightly off-center oval ring base; carinated body profile; small central fill hole in a concave oblong channel extending to the wick hole at the pointed end of the body; upright conical handle on shoulder at broad end. Decoration: Traces of dark reddish-brown slip on top. Relief on shoulder consisting of four small raised circles w/ central dots on either side of fill hole. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; very worn; some encrustation; few minor chips; heavily burnt around wick hole and on upper body.

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Portland State University Middle East Studies Center - Public Access
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Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
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Ceramics, Utilitarian Objects
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Lamp
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