Elongated Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Ridges

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Elongated Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Ridges

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: fine reddish clay with fine inclusions, Mundell: 2.5 YR 5/6 red
height 3.6-5.1 cm
length 12.2 cm
width 5.4 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #78, PSU 028 (52)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This elongated slipper-shaped lamp has a large wick hole. The pierced fill hole is encircled by a double ridge from which other ridges extend to the wick hole. The handle is pyramidal and sits back on the lamp next to the double ridges. Shape: Elongated slipper shaped lamp with flat base; large round wick hole at narrow end of body; opposite is upright triangular, unpierced handle; concave discus on top with central fill hole. Decoration: Two concentric ridges encircling discus; four parallel ridges extending from discus to wick hole along axis of nozzle. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; heavily burnt.

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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.