Ovoid Terracotta Lamp with Voluted Nozzle

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Ovoid Terracotta Lamp with Voluted Nozzle 

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: course with medium inclusions. Munsell 5 YR 5/4 reddish brown

height 2.6 cm
length 8.2 cm
width 5.1 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #323, PSU 132 (155)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This small, ovoid, tan lamp has a wide voluted nozzle. The decoration consists of radiating, deeply incised lines. Shape: Round bodied lamp with slight disk base set off by circular groove; slightly carinated, rounded body profile; small concave discus with large central fill hole; long extended nozzle with flaring sides and rounded end. Decoration: Relief decoration on top consisting of circular groove around discus; series of radiating ridges and grooves on shoulder; raised semi-circular patch on one side; volutes flanking nozzle, each with one curled end on shoulder; shallow channel on nozzle axis with irregularly shaped raised patch on nozzle axis. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; chipped at tip of nozzle; burnt 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
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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.