Round Terracotta Lamp with Voluted Nozzle

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Round Terracotta Lamp with Voluted Nozzle    

terracotta: moldmade, fabric: fine with some mica and inclusions
height 2.7 cm
length 8.5 cm
width 4.9 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #296, PSU 116 (140)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

The body of this red lamp is very irregular, but basically circular. The nozzle is voluted. The top bears a simple scroll decoration. Shape: Round bodied lamp with shallow disk base; rounded body profile; small concave discus with small off-center fill hole; extended flaring nozzle, slightly rounded at end. Decoration: Reddish orange slip unevenly applied, mostly on top.  Relief decoration consisting of hieroglyphic sign on nozzle axis (vertical ridge with three horizontal ridges), flanked by volutes where nozzle joins body; radiating petal design around outer edge of discus; possible traces of radiating lines on shoulder. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; few minor chips; traces of burning.

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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.