Frog Style Terracotta Lamp with Stylized Relief

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Frog Style Terracotta Lamp with Stylized Relief

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: fine. Munsell: 7.5 YR 6/4 light brown
height 2.4 cm
length 7.4 cm
width 5.6 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #333, PSU 027bis (51)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This tan, pendant-shaped lamp has a short, pointed nozzle with a large pierced wick hole. The design on this frog lamp is worn, but distinguishable. The head and rear legs are present. The bottom bears a potter's mark. Shape: Roughly heart-shaped lamp with nearly flat base, set off by circular groove; sharply carinated body profile; small, concave discus with central fill hole; extended nozzle, triangular at the tip; no handle. Decoration: Frog lamp. Relief decoration around discus consisting of highly stylized frog design; rear legs visible opposite nozzle; small head visible near nozzle; pair of circular ridges around discus. Inscriptions: Potter's mark on base (alpha). Condition: Intact; burnt around wick hole; overall good.    

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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.