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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: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Crescent-shaped ornament handle; pierced hole below. On crescent, bust of Jupiter with raised arms holding scepter in left hand, thunderbolt in right. Shoulder: Loeschcke form III a. Small concave discus surrounded by molding consisting of several inward-sloping or convex circular bands. Central filling-hole. Long nozzle with beveled neck and oval raised wick-hole area. Incuse bunch of grapes on each slanting side of upper part of nozzle neck. Base-ring marked off by one exterior groove. In center, planta pedis with illegible letters.

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