Round Terracotta Lamp with Pedestal Base

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Round Terracotta Lamp with Pedestal Base

terracotta: wheel-made, fabric: fine with some mica inclusions. Munsell: 10 YR 6/1-5/1 gray
height 3.7 cm
length 8.4 cm
width 6.2 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #254, PSU 113 (137)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This gray, circular lamp was wheel turned and has a pedestal base. The short pointed nozzle has a large wick hole. The fill hole is recessed. The handle is missing but sat well upon the edge of the fill hole recess. Shape: Round bodied lamp with disc base; carinated body profile, concave below and rounded on shoulder; deep concave discus with small central fill hole; extended flaring triangular nozzle, rounded at the tip; oblong handle on shoulder at rear, broken off, ends extending down body. Decoration: Covered with matt gray slip on all surfaces. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Mostly complete; missing handle; minor surface chips; burnt near wick hole.

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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.