Round Terracotta Lamp with Radiating Line Relief

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Round Terracotta Lamp with Radiating Line Relief

terracotta: moldmade, fabric: fine with some inclusions, dense. Munsell: 10 YR 5/1 gray
height 2.9 cm
length 9.2 cm
width 5.9 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #273, PSU 115 (139)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This well-worn gray lamp is circular with a long, thick nozzle. The fill hole is recessed. The decoration consists of raised lines radiating from the recess outwards. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base set off by circular groove; rounded body profile; concave discus with small central fill hole; extended, rounded nozzle. Decoration: Relief decoration on top consisting of radiating grooves and ridges on shoulder; tongue-shaped field of grooves and ridges on nozzle axis where it joins with body. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; very worn; minor chips, especially around wick hole; encrusted and discolored; heavy burning.

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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.