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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Big bear biting the shoulder of a bestiarius crouching on the ground, hiding his face in his hands; in the foreground a whip, the dying man's only weapon. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part, one on lower. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VIII b, with knotted laurel-wreath decor. Filling-hole lower left. Air hole at lower edge of discus. Heart-shaped nozzle; striated band underneath. Circular base with a wide band marked off by two grooves; a third inner narrower one; on the band, three evenly spaced ovo-patterns.

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