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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Bejeweled cross-monogram. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Solid spikelike handle flattened on sides. Oval elongated body. Shoulder: alternating stamps from gold coins (solidi) commemorating Theodosius II's vicennalia, obverse and reverse; next to nozzle channel, rectangular stamp with lozenge and triangles (Bussière 2007, no. Y 14, pl. 141). Two symmetrically placed filling-holes. Discus surrounded by ridge, continuing around nozzle to form broad channel. Raised rounded base-ring connected to handle; two thin concentric circles in the middle of the base.

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