Boot Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Rectangular Handle

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Boot Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Rectangular Handle

terracotta: handmade(?), fabric: medium coarse with inclusion. Munsell: 2.5 Y 7/4 pale yellow
height 4.5 cm
length 7.2 cm
width 5.3 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #313, PSU 130 (153)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

The general appearance of this gray lamp reminds one of a boot. The large wick hole is pierced in the "toe." The fill hole is on the top. The lamp is very crude and has thick sides. Shape: Almond-shaped lamp with slightly rounded base; rounded body profile; raised concave discus with central fill hole; solid rectangular handle with depression on top; wick hole on top near pointed end of body. Decoration: None. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; slight trace of burning 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
Keywords: 
Lamp
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