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Date: 1st–4th century A.D.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Unclear. Possibly a male figure standing at left, reaching toward grapes in a basket(?). Description: Moldmade. Solid vertical round handle. Oval body. Shoulder with tendrils and grapes. Ridge with thin central groove surrounds both discus and nozzle top, leaving a narrow channel with curved sides connecting them. Nozzle with splayed rounded tip and burn marks. Underbody close to Eph. B, with two additional parallel vertical grooves on each side of basin. Large plain planta pedis.

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