Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Pyramidal Handle

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Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Pyramidal Handle

terracotta: mold-made, fine with some inclusions. Munsell: 2.5 Y 7/3 pale yellow
height 4.9 cm
length 10.4 cm
width 7.5 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #168, PSU 003 (5)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This fictile lamp has an almond shape with a pyramidal, lined handle. The top has raised panels of symbols and a keyhole design of raised lines from the large fill hole to the nozzle. Shape: Almond-shaped slipper lamp with almond-shaped ring base with ridge extending to point of body on underside (slightly askew); sharply carinated body profile; large central fill hole; wick hole at pointed end of body; large upright pyramidal handle at broad end of body. Decoration: Raised lip around fill hole, surrounded by a raised keyhole-shaped ridge extending to wick hole; diamond pattern on nozzle axis; curved band of double-outlined square panels on shoulders, each containing three concentric circles and four smaller circles in corner; triangles extend from top of each panel; three ridges on front of handle. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; heavily burnt at wick hole; minor surface chips; very worn, especially on one shoulder.

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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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