Pendant Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Frog Relief

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Pendant Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Frog Relief

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: fine with some inclusions
height 2.4 cm
length 7.2 cm
width 5.3 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #276, PSU 134 (156)

Further Object Details: mold-made, terracotta, fabric: fine with some inclusions

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This tan, pendant- shaped lamp has a medium voluted nozzle. It is also one of the frog lamps, with the rear legs of the frog discernible. The flanks, however, are well worn. There is a potter's mark on the bottom. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base set off by circular groove; slightly carinated body profile; small off-center concave discus with central fill hole; long extended, slightly splayed nozzle, rounded at the end. Decoration: Frog lamp. Relief decoration on top consisting of depressed channel on nozzle axis containing band of chevrons, framed by volutes with curled ends at edge of discus; stylized frog on shoulder; hind legs and slight tail visible opposite nozzle; ovoid patches of hatching on either side representing body. Inscriptions: Potter's mark on base (alpha). Condition: Intact; worn; heavily burnt on nozzle.
 

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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.