Round Terracotta Lamp with Pointed Nozzle and Floral Relief

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Round Terracotta Lamp with Pointed Nozzle and Floral Relief

terracotta: moldmade, fabric: fine with some inclusions. Munsell: 2.5 Y 4/1 dark gray
height 2.2 cm
length 9.7 cm
width 5.5 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #247, PSU 110 (134)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This gray lamp has a circular body and a long, pointed nozzle. The recessed fill hole is surrounded by well worn decorations which were probably of vegetation. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base set off by shallow circular groove; slightly carinated body profile; concave discus with small central fill hole; long extended triangular nozzle, rounded at the tip. Decoration: Relief decoration on top consisting of two short horizontal grooves setting off end of nozzle; pair of volutes framing nozzle where it joins with the body; fill hole surrounded by raised lip; discus set off by shallow circular groove; band of floral decoration on shoulder (rosettes? very worn). Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; very worn; burnt and blackened all over.

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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.