Terracotta Lamp with Radiating Line Relief and Voluted Nozzle

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Terracotta Lamp with Radiating Line Relief and Voluted Nozzle

terracotta: moldmade, fabric: fine with some inclusions
height 2.5 cm
length 8.1 cm
width 5.4 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #270, PSU 135 (157)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This gray, fictile lamp has a medium length, voluted nozzle projecting from its circular body. The decoration is nothing more than radiating, incised lines around the pierced fill hole recess. Shape: Round bodied lamp with flat base set off by circular groove; carinated body profile; small concave discus with central fill hole; long extended triangular nozzle, rounded at the end. Decoration: Relief decoration on top consisting of circular groove surrounding fill hole; another circular groove at the outer edge of the discus; radiating grooves and ridges on the shoulder; pair of volutes on shoulder flanking nozzle. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Intact; some encrustation; burning around wick hole.

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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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