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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: Head of Acheloüs: half human, collar of beard and wide-open nostrils; half bovine, two horns and two bovine ears. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Plain shoulder separated from concave discus by a molding consisting of a thin outer ridge and a wider inner one. Two equal-sized filling-holes, one on each side of center. Unpierced air hole on nozzle top. Double-volute nozzle with angular tip; thin ridge connecting volutes under nozzle. Flat base-ring marked off by two circular grooves. Potter's incuse signature: POSSESSO/RVM.

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