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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. Elaborate triangular ornament handle with bust of majestic bearded Serapis wearing calathus; no ring behind handle; top finial of shield shows probable further extension of Serapis's reign of vegetation: bunch of grapes(?), fruit(?) above three conchlike shells. Sinuous floral patterns on edge of handle; between edge and bust, six small stylized suns or stars. On back of handle, six stylized flowers, each consisting of a stem with three small circles on top. Incuse inscription: letters on two lines, interrupted by stem of handle back: E I C // I Ω / N // O C (made by, or belonging to, Eision). Rather shallow body with strongly inward-sloping sides. Flat shoulder with a row of small ovolos, separated from concave discus by circular ridge and three circles inside it. Around central filling-hole, molding of three inward-sloping bands. Two round-tipped nozzles with harnessed horse-head volutes; double-ended thyrsuses between volutes; burn marks. Raised flat-topped base-ring, inside which three more rings and a central raised dot.

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