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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Hippocamp, mythic sea creature with the head of a horse and the twisted tail of a fish, rushing left. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII a, with laurel wreath and berries. Central filling-hole with traces of corroded iron wick-nail. Air hole facing nozzle. Heart-shaped nozzle. Raised base-ring marked off by two grooves, inside two additional thin grooves; ovo-patterns on base-ring.

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