Pot Terracotta Lamp with Large Fill Hole

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Pot Terracotta Lamp with Large Fill Hole

terracotta: wheelmade, fabric: fine brown clay with some mica and other small inclusions. Munsell: 10 YR 5/3 brown
height 4-4.9 cm
length 10 cm
width 8.8 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #93, PSU 149 (171)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This brown lamp is pot shaped and was wheel turned. The surface around the large fill hole is flat. The handle is conical and is of a different type of clay than the lamp and therefore was probably not original. The nozzle is large and open and comes to a rounded point. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base; globular profile; large central fill hole surrounded by broad ledge rim; long triangular open nozzle coming out from body; opposite nozzle is upright triangular un-pierced handle and appears to be a later addition. Decoration: None. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Mostly complete except for restored handle; some minor chips along rim and nozzle; heavily burnt around 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.