Lamp
1200-1250 (made)
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Oil lamp of fritware painted in black and glazed. With concentric half-ovals decorating interior of rim on each side of now-missing handle. Exterior of two pinched areas decorated with single line. Multiple fragments from other vessels embedded in the interior of the lamp.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Fritware painted in black and glazed |
| Brief description | Oil lamp of fritware painted in black and glazed; Syria (Raqqa), 1200-1250. |
| Physical description | Oil lamp of fritware painted in black and glazed. With concentric half-ovals decorating interior of rim on each side of now-missing handle. Exterior of two pinched areas decorated with single line. Multiple fragments from other vessels embedded in the interior of the lamp. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006), cat. no. W121, p. 101 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.105-1909 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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