Rounded Bodied Terracotta Lamp with Circular Handle

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Rounded Bodied Terracotta Lamp with Circular Handle

terracotta: mold-made, fabric: fine with some inclusions. Munsell 5 YR 6/6 reddish yellow
height 2.2-3.6 cm
length 6.9 cm
width 5.2 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #203, PSU 034 (61)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This circular lamp had a recessed and pierced fill hole. The pierced nozzle is short and the pierced circular handle extends from under the rim to the edge of the fill hole depression. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base outlined by a slight groove; sharply carinated body profile; broad concave discus with very small central fill hole; short rounded nozzle; high-swung vertical ring handle with central ridge in back running down onto body and single groove on top. Decoration: Traces of reddish brown slip.  Relief decoration on discus consisting of radiating grooves and ridges; two concentric grooves around edge of discus; apparent wreath design on shoulder (very worn). Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; encrusted with dirt; 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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