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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Plain discus. Description: Two-nozzled suspension lamp. Low body with vertical sides. No shoulder. Slightly sunken flat circular discus surrounded by a ridge. Large filling-hole without rim. Two long single-volute nozzles with spade-shaped tips; volutes have faintly incised circles on top and are joined on the underside by a slight ridge, hardly pronounced in its middle part; file marks on one nozzle underside. Each nozzle is topped with a ring in the elegant shape of a swan's head and neck, each with a ring attached; each ring is in turn attached to a chain; both chains are attached to a rectangular bronze plate (tabula ansata), whose short sides have swallow-tail cuttings and a movable vertical bronze rod, linked to a plate with a hook for hanging; one chain is repaired with links of a different size, all probably ancient. Raised straight base; interior slightly sunken within broad flat standing-ring.

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