Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

2nd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Amphitheater scene: big lion at left, with its right claw striking a fallen man whose raised right leg seems to be chained to a pole, which he is grasping. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part and one on lower. Shoulder with a row of ovolos, separated from discus by a braided ridge marked off by two circular grooves. Filling-hole and air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle; below it two striated bands between two twisted cords. Base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.

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