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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: Hippocamp, mythic sea monster with a horse's head on top of a long neck, feline claws, and the body of horse, ending in the curled tail of a marine creature. Description: Moldmade. Ornament handle in the shape of a horse's head with curved neck, pierced at base; at midheight of neck a thick ridge not completely surrounding it. Narrow outward-sloping shoulder, separated from discus by a band of radiating pattern and a ridge: two parallel short straight lines surmounted by a heart-shaped motif alternating with a short straight line with globular top. Almost central filling-hole. Air hole in lower field. Large angular-tipped volute-nozzle; thinly striated double-volutes with curling spines incised on flat nozzle top; on the underside, a heart-shaped motif marked off by two thin grooves. Raised rounded base-ring marked off by two circular grooves; additional inner flat ring marked off the same way.

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