Round Terracotta Lamp with Rosette Relief

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Round Bodied Terracotta Lamp with Rosette Relief

terracotta: mold-made. Fabric: fine with inclusions. Munsell: 10 YR 7/3 very pale brown.
height: 2.8 cm
length: 9 cm
width: 4.8 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #245, PSU 142 (164)

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This brown lamp with an ovoid body has a long, flanged nozzle. There is a smiling face at the front of the petal-decorated fill hole recess. The lamp is chipped in a few places.

Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base set off by shallow circular groove. Slightly carinated body profile. Small central fill hole. Long extended nozzle rounded at end. 

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 grimacing face on top of nozzle at juncture with body.

Inscriptions: None.

Condition: Intact. Several large chips from body, very worn, traces of burning around wick hole.

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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
Keywords: 
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.