Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Circular Design Relief

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Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Circular Design Relief    

terracotta: mold-made, fine with some inclusions. Munsell: 7.5 YR 6/4 light brown
height 4.2 cm
length 9.2 cm
width 7.0 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #281, PSU 015 (26)    

 

Professor Anne Nicgorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This fictile lamp is of almond shape and the designs on it are circles with dots in them. There are two ridges extending from the sides of the conical handle and around the pierced wick hold. The fill hold is also pierced centrally over the reservoir. Shape: Almond-shaped lamp with ring base; carinated body profile; central fill hole; wick hole at pointed end of body; upright solid conical handle at broad end. Decoration: Broad depressed channel running from handle to wick hole, with raised ridges on either side; four raised circles with central dots on each shoulder; pairs of raised dots on either side of wick hole. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Mostly complete; large chips from wick hole; other minor chips; worn; encrusted; burnt around wick hole.

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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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Image reproduced with permission from Portland State University Middle East Studies Center. The institutions that house the specific Medieval Portland objects ultimately hold the rights to their image and reproduction; the images are provided here as a courtesy by those institutions and are for non-profit, educational use only.