Round Terracotta Lamp with Ring Handle

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Round Bodied Terracotta Lamp with Ring Handle

terracotta: moldmade, fabric: fine thin-walled, slight white inclusions
height 2.6-4.3 cm
length 10 cm
width 6.4 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #314, PSU 002bis (4)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This fictile lamp with a red slip contains a recessed discus, and volutes on the medium-length nozzle. It has a ring handle with two incised lines ion its front curvature. There is a hole under the nozzle and a portion of the reservoir is missing. Shape: Round bodied lamp with shallow ring base; slightly convex sloping lower body; sharply carinated to flat shoulder; broad concave discus set off by ridge framed by two narrow circular grooves; small central fill hole; extended nozzle, rounded at end; pair of volutes flanking nozzle axis; pierced vertical round handle with pair of dorsal grooves opposite nozzle. Decoration: Reddish orange slip on all surfaces (2.5 YR 5/6 red). Inscriptions: None. Condition: Mostly complete; one large and one small hole in underside of body; worn; encrusted; slight trace of burning at tip of 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.