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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. Ornament handle in the shape of a two-lobed bud, large handle ring behind. Deep cylindrical body. Shoulder consisting of narrow band marked off by two grooves; at foot of handle, two unpierced hinges with three grooves each, reminiscent of bronze-lamp hinges on lamps with a sliding lid. Discus sloping inward to flat-bottomed area pierced by central filling-hole. Long protruding round-tipped nozzle flanked by volutes with pronounced knobs. Between them a bacchic bearded head in relief: Silenus. Heart-shaped wick-hole. Raised base-ring.

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