Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Alexandrian landscape: temple with three columns and spherical roof between knotty trees; in front, two fishermen sitting on rocks facing each other, holding fishing rods; the left one, wearing a round hat, has caught a fish dangling at the end of a line. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two blurred grooves on both upper and lower parts. Outward-sloping plain shoulder, separated from flat discus by a ridge marked off by two grooves; this ridge surrounds both discus and nozzle top, leaving a broad "strangled" channel between them. Central filling-hole. Air hole in lower field, facing channel. Short round-tipped nozzle surrounded by a raised edge and flanked by two side-volutes. Circular base marked off by one circular groove. Potter's signature on four lines EXOF(-)/CV(-)/OV(-)RS/I(-).

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