Double Nozzle Terracotta Lamp with Round Body and Leaf Shaped Handle

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Double Nozzle Terracotta Lamp with Round Body and Leaf Shaped Handle

Egyptian, 1st century CE?

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: fine with some inclusions. Munsell: 10 R 5/8 red
height 3.6 cm
length 7.1 cm
width 4.8 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #210, PSU 035 (63)    

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This small orange lamp has a round body and two pierced nozzles. At the end opposite the nozzles is a leaf-shaped and designed handle. The pierced fill hole is in a recess. Shape: Round bodied lamp with ring base outlined by inner and outer grooves; rounded body profile; central fill hole in concave discus; two short rounded nozzles opposite triangular heat shield. Decoration: Underside of heat shield marked by two diagonal grooves on either side; groove between nozzles on underside; two grooves on side of one nozzle; relief decoration on top consisting of a roughly circular groove surrounding discus; highly stylized incised volutes at outer edges of nozzles and between them; stylized leaf design on top of heat shield. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; minor chips; heavily burnt around both nozzles.

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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.