Ovoid Terracotta Lamp with Frog Relief

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Ovoid Terracotta Lamp with Frog Relief

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: coarse buff clay
height 0.030 cm
length 0.089 cm
width 0.079 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #57, PSU 148 (170)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This grey frog lamp is ovoid in body and has a medium length, broad nozzle. The frog pattern is highly stylized. The rear legs are discernible and the flanks consist of checkered fields. The fill hole is in a deep recess. The underside bears a potter's mark. Shape: Roughly round bodied lamp with two concentric grooves on underside forming shallow ring base. Extended nozzle with rounded termination and a central fill hole surrounded by plain, concave disc. Decoration: Relief decoration on top; stylized frog pattern; hatched frog tail and hind legs opposite nozzle; four areas of checkerboard pattern divided by raised ridges. Short ribs at juncture of nozzle and body; top of nozzle decorated with horizontal ridges. Inscriptions: Potter's mark on base. Condition: Intact; minor chips and abrasions; burning around nozzle and wick hole; some encrustation.

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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.