Round Terracotta Lamp with Wide Ridge Relief

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Round Terracotta Lamp with Wide Ridge Relief

terracotta: moldmade, fabric: fine with some inclusions
height 2.7 cm
length 8.2 cm
width 4.9 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #255, PSU 118 (142)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This red lamp is also irregularly circular in body. It has a long, pointed nozzle. The decoration consists of high, wide ridges radiating from the enclosed, pierced fill hole. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base set off by shallow circular groove; slightly carinated body profile; long extended triangular nozzle, rounded at the tip; small concave discus with small central fill hole. Decoration: Broad radiating ridges on shoulder; circular bosses on top of every other ridge near outer edge of discus; larger boss at edge of discus where nozzle joins body. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; minor chips and flakes; worn; heavily burnt at tip of nozzle.
 

 

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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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