Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Mercury wearing his winged cap galloping to left on a woolly ram, caduceus in left arm, purse in right hand, drapery flowing behind. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Shoulder flat: outer part plain, inner with a row of raised tongues, separated from discus by a thin twisted cord marked off by two circular grooves. Filling-hole in upper right field. Air hole in discus, facing nozzle. Heart-shaped nozzle; below, a band of tongues between two twisted cords. Flat base with three bands marked off by circular grooves. The two outside bands are of the same width, the outer is decorated with symmetrically repeated, incised ovo-patterns, the inner with a row of small dotted circles. The innermost band is plain and narrower. In the central area of the base one small dotted circle.

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