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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Medusa head in pronounced relief surrounded by rosette with twenty-four petals. Description: Moldmade. Flat shoulder with close-set concentric rills; two rectangular side-lugs with volute decoration. Deeply depressed flat-bottomed discus; inward-sloping walls with rosette-pattern of multiple concave petals. Discus pierced by small filling-hole and two even smaller air holes. Angular-tipped nozzle flanked by shoulder-volutes without spines, as on Loeschcke type V. Raised base-ring.

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