Pendant Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Two Side Projections

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Pendant Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Two Side Projections

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: coarse with small-medium gray/white inclusions. Munsell: 2.5 YR 5/6 Red
height 3.2-3.5 cm
length 10.7 cm
width 5.9 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #318, PSU 087 (113)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This red, fictile lamp is somewhat pendant shaped with a long, wide wick hole. It has two side projections. The handle is large and resembles a twig held under a loop handle. The fill hole is large. Shape: Curved, triangular-shaped lamp with ring base; slightly carinated body profile; large, central fill hole on top; long, extended nozzle, slightly squared at tip; handle consists of two parallel ridges extending from fill hole and continuing over a roughly cylindrical piece, set perpendicular to body. Decoration: Three short grooves at each corner of lamp, except at handle. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; heavily burnt around wick hole; patches of brownish discoloration.

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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.