Round Terracotta Lamp with Concentric Ring Relief

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Round Terracotta Lamp with Concentric Ring Relief

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: fine with some inclusions
height 2.6 cm
length 8.1 cm
width 5.7 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #316, PSU 78

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This gray, fictile lamp has a brown slip covering the recessed areas, but not those exposed to wear. The lamp is circular in form and has a recessed top. The nozzle is voluted and it lacks a handle. The relief decoration on the centrally pierced discus is not discernible. Shape: Round bodied lamp with very slight ring base set off by inner and outer circular grooves; rounded body profile; central fill hole in broad concave discus extending to edges of lamp on top; extended nozzle flanked by volutes, the curled ends of which extend into tapered ridges on sides of body. Decoration: Dark reddish brown slip on all surfaces.  Relief decoration on discus consisting of five concentric grooves around outer edge of discus; set of three concentric ridges around fill hole; radiating stylized leaves or petals on discus. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; very small hole in side of reservoir; very worn; slip largely gone; otherwise clean. 

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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.