Delphiniform Terracotta Lamp with Radiating Ridges and Square Nozzle

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Delphiniform Terracotta Lamp with Radiating Ridges and Square Nozzle

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: fine gray clay with some inclusions and mica. Munsell: 2.5 Y 7/2 light gray
height 3.2 cm
length 8.2 cm
width 6.2 cm
holes 1.6 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #(?), PSU 125 (148)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This light gray, delphiniform lamp has a short, square nozzle. The side projection is not pierced. The fill hole is large. The design consists of radiating ridges. The lamp was once covered by a dark brown slip. Shape: Round-bodied lamp; sharply carinated in profile, with a slightly concave disk base; broad central fill hole within a flat discus; long extended nozzle, squared at termination; unpierced lug on one side. Decoration: Dark reddish-brown slip (extensive traces). Relief decoration on top consisting of a raised ridge and concentric groove surrounding discus; radiating grooves all around lamp on shoulder; pair of tiny volutes where nozzle joins shoulder. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact but very worn, especially slip; traces of burning around nozzle 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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