Round Terracotta Lamp with Frog Relief

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Round Terracotta Lamp with Frog Relief

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: course buff clay
height 3.4 cm
length 8.1 cm
width 7.1 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #43, PSU 145 (167)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This grey lamp is of the frog variety, being almost circular with its short nozzle barely protruding. The frog design consists of all four legs of the frog in a simple relief. The whole lamp is worn and the decoration is primitive. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base; raised ridge around nearly central fill hole; short rounded nozzle. Decoration: Relief "frog design" with a triangular "tail" opposite spout; two legs on either side; two volutes extended towards wick hole with horizontal hatching in between them. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact with some minor chips; overall worn with some encrustations.

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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.