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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Rosette with twenty-two petals. Description: Moldmade. Pierced ornament handle in the shape of a two-lobed bud; ring handle below; vertical double-edged groove separating two symmetrical bulging lobes; small protrusion at top, at bottom (on shoulder) larger globule of undetermined shape--head(?). Deep body with sloping sides. Shoulder: Loeschcke form IV b. Ring around central filling-hole. Protruding round-tipped nozzle flanked by broad volutes with prominent knobs, lower ones unusually big. Two concentric raised base-rings, outer one slightly larger.

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