Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Majestic bare-chested, bearded figure, standing frontal, looking left, himation wrapped around his waist and over his left shoulder; he is holding a cylindrical object (a scroll[?]) over a lit altar. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII a, with knotted laurel-wreath decor. Filling-hole with iron corrosion in lower left field. Air hole in lower field, opposite nozzle. Heart-shaped nozzle. Slightly raised rounded base-ring marked off by two circular grooves, an additional thinner ridge, and an inner wider band.

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