Round Terracotta Lamp with Stylized Petal Relief

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Round Terracotta Lamp with Stylized Petal Relief

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: fine with mica. Munsell: 7.5 YR 6/4 light brown
height 2.9 cm
length 8.7 cm
width 5.9 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #304, PSU 120 (144)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This red fictile lamp is circular and has a short, thick, pointed nozzle. The top bears a rosary around the recessed fill hole and radiating ridges from the rosary to the edge. The bottom bears a large, barely discernible potter's mark. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base set off by circular groove; rounded body profile; small central fill hole set off by circular ridge; long extended nozzle with triangular end. Decoration: Red slip covering all surfaces (10 R 6/6 light red).  Relief decoration on top consisting of stylized petals radiating from fill hole; radiating groove/ridge pattern on shoulder; stylized plan form on nozzle axis -- central loop and two curled tendrils on either side. Inscriptions: Potter's mark on base. Condition: Intact; surface worn.

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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.