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Lamp

Date

1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Hecate, flanked by two dogs, lifting her six arms and holding torches in her six hands; lunar crescent on her head. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Crescent ornament handle with incised crescent within, no ring behind. Flat rectangular body with small voluted ear on each side; decorated area within frame consisting of an outer flat-topped ridge and an inner inward-sloping ridge. Two symmetrically placed filling-holes. Five long round-tipped volute-nozzles with sides joined, each with a circular raised area on flat top and single volutes, partially rendered; one volute-spine on each side of this uncommon grouping of nozzles. Flat base indistinctly marked.

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