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Lamp

Date

2nd–3rd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Bust of Mars, body frontal, head to right, wearing a helmet with visor and a cuirass. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with three grooves on upper part. Deep basin, lesser depth toward nozzle. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VIII b, with three rows of beads. Filling-hole slightly left of center. Air hole facing nozzle. Heart-shaped nozzle, Bus. 10b; underneath, striated band between two curved, twisted cords. Flat base-ring marked off by two circular grooves and decorated with three blurred, evenly spaced ovo-motifs; two additional thin inner circles; a small dotted circle in center.

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