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Date: 1st–4th century A.D.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Three different theater masks evenly distributed on flat upper part of discus. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with three grooves on upper part. Flat shoulder, separated from discus by a flat-topped ridge marked off by two grooves and interrupted by a very narrow channel facing nozzle top; the two extremities of the ridge curl outward at channel; small rectangular panel on each side of shoulder. Ridge marked off by two grooves surrounding slightly concave discus with central filling-hole. Slit air hole facing nozzle. Small rounded nozzle form Bus. 9e encroaching upon shoulder. Base marked off by one circular groove; plain planta pedis.

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