Round Terracotta Lamp with Turquoise Glaze

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Round Bodied Terracotta Lamp with Turquoise Glaze

terracotta: wheelmade, fabric: fine, hard-fired buff clay
height 4.8 cm
length 9.8 cm
width 6.6 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #58, PSU 091 (197)

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This lamp, bearing a blue-green glaze, has a bowl-shaped reservoir on a pedestal base. The long, open nozzle is broken at the end. The lamp once had a funnel-neck at the top, but this is now missing, as is the loop handle which extended from the rear of the reservoir to the neck. There is also a large portion of the reservoir missing. Shape: Round bodied lamp with ring base and slightly convex underside; long open spot; central neck broken away; vertical handle attachment preserved on body; very small projection at right angles to spot and handle on one side; circular shallow groove around top of body. Decoration: Covered with green glaze on exterior of lamp and interior of spout, drips on side and ring base. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Three-quarters complete; neck handle, tip of spout, and large piece of body missing; glaze worn in areas.
 

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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.