Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Stylized Petal Design

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Almond Shaped Terracotta Lamp with Stylized Petal Design

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: medium-coarse with inclusions, Munsell: 7.5 YR 7/3 pink
height 2.4 cm
length 7.1 cm
width 5.7 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #330, PSU 126 (149)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This gray, fictile lamp is rounded almond-shaped. It has a very large, pierced wick hole and a large fill hole. The design on the top around the fill hole is geometric, although it could be a stylized petal design. The bottom bears a potter's mark. Shape: Roughly almond-shaped lamp with slight ring base set off by circular groove; two pairs of diagonal grooves on underside of nozzle; slightly carinated body profile; large central fill hole with irregular edges, set off by circular ridge and two grooves; short extended nozzle, rounded at tip, with large wick hole (0.012 diam.). Decoration: Relief decoration on top consisting of radiating petal design; series of short parallel ridges along nozzle axis. Inscriptions: Potter's mark on base (curved swastika?) Condition: Intact; minor chips along edge of fill hole; very dirty and worn.

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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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