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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Bacchus standing frontally, looking to left, picking grapes from a vine at far left; his left arm is around the shoulder of a youth with thyrsus at right; both are nude. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Shoulder with a row of raised tongues, separated from discus by a narrow ridge marked off by two circular grooves. Filling-hole slightly left of center. Air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle; under it a band of eight tongues. On the base, a wide band marked off by two grooves, accompanied by a third thin inner ridge; on this band four small dotted circles evenly spaced; a fifth small circle in the center of the base.

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