Round Terracotta Lamp with Rosette and Face Relief

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Round Bodied Terracotta Lamp with Rosette and Face Relief

terracotta: moldmade, fabric: fine with some inclusions
height 2.7 cm
length 9.2 cm
width 5.2 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #246, PSU 141 (163)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This dark brown lamp has a slightly ovoid body and a long, flanged nozzle. The fill hole recess is decorated by a petal design at the front of it. Towards the nozzle there is a worn relief which resembles a face. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base set off by shallow circular groove; slightly carinated body profile; long extended nozzle rounded at end; small central fill hole. Decoration: Covered with brown slip on all surfaces. Relief decoration on top consisting of nine-petal rosette radiating from fill hole; seven deep radiating grooves on shoulder with raised areas between; small frontal head on top of nozzle at juncture with body.  Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; crack across top of body; worn; very heavily burnt on 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.