Frog Style Terracotta Lamp with Palm Frond Relief

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Frog Style Terracotta Lamp with Palm Frond Relief

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: coarse. Munsell: 10 YR 7/3 very pale brown
height 3.5 cm
length 7.8 cm
width 7.4 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #249, PSU 026bis (49)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This gray lamp is of the frog type and was molded with a thick-walled reservoir. The wick hole and fill hole are pierced. The design is highly stylized and consists of a few incised lines and a bump at the rear. Shape: Round-bodied lamp with slightly rounded base; slightly carinated body profile; small central fill hole; short extended rounded nozzle. Decoration: Frog lamp type. Relief decoration on top consisting of a pair of grooves on top of nozzle with a series of short horizontal grooves between them on the nozzle axis; raised boss on shoulder opposite nozzle with shallow central depression; depressed circles and stylized palm fronds on either side with two more bosses at outer edge on either side of fill hole. Inscriptions: Potter's mark on bottom (alpha). Condition: Intact; extremely worn; whitish discoloration; traces of burning at 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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