Round Terracotta Lamp with Looped Tongue and Chevron Pattern

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Round Bodied Terracotta Lamp with Looped Tongue and Chevron Pattern

terracotta: mold-made. Fabric: medium-coarse brown clay. Munsell: 10 YR 6/3 pale brown
height: 3.5 cm
length: 8.2 cm
width: 6.7 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #67, PSU 153 (175)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This brown, fictile lamp is ovoid in form with a medium-length, wide nozzle. The decoration on top is incised relief and resembles a petal design. The bottom bears an unusual potter's mark which resembles an asterisk. Shape: Round bodied lamp with an extended nozzle with rounded termination; flat base; central fill hole in concave discus. Decoration: Relief decoration on top, radiating looped tongue pattern surrounding discus and fill hole. At juncture of nozzle and body: three incised circles and two diagonal lines. On axis of nozzle: chevron pattern. Incised circle near wick hole. Condition: Mostly complete. Heavily chipped around wick hole, other minor surface chips. Large amount of burning, especially 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.