Round Closed Rim Terracotta Lamp with Relief of Cupid Sowing Seeds

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Round Closed Rim Terracotta Lamp with Relief of Cupid Sowing Seeds

terracotta: moldmade, fabric: fine
height 2.5 cm
length 8.5 cm
width 5.6 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #253, PSU 003bis (6)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This closed rim lamp with off-set fill hole has a pierced handle and a raised design of a cupid sowing seeds. It is of a red clay with a slight pierced projection for a nozzle. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base; slightly convex side walls; rounded shoulder; concave discus; small off-center fill hole; short extended rounded nozzle; vertical ring handle with pair of grooves on top, single groove on bottom; small raised dots on either side of handle on shoulder. Decoration: Relief decoration on top consisting of winged figure in discus, in profile to the right; possibly with upper body and head frontal; right arm lowered behind him holding something; left arm extended in front holding something; indeterminate object in field in front. Probably Eros. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; very worn; encrusted.

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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.