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Lamp

Date

4th century B.C.–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Rosette with twelve petals. Description: Moldmade. Miniature lamp. Ring handle with three grooves on upper part. Outward-sloping plain shoulder, separated from discus by two ridges close to one another, which divide at front of nozzle; at that point extremities curl up into volutes, creating a channel between discus and nozzle; large globule on each side of voluted extremities. Central filling-hole. Nozzle tangent to lamp body, but its slightly raised flat top does not match exactly Bus. form 3. Base marked off by one circular groove. Incuse plain planta pedis.

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