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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Two heads facing one another; young maiden at left with veil over back half of her wavy hairdo; she wears earrings; young man at right in a Phrygian bonnet; above, a small Greek cross. Description: Moldmade. Solid vertical round handle with beginning of three grooves on upper part, lower part ending in fishtail with central dot. Convex shoulder with tendrils and bunches of grapes. Two thin ridges separated by a groove surround both discus and nozzle top, leaving a narrow straight channel connecting them. Large filling-hole in lower field, smaller air hole in upper one. Round-tipped protruding nozzle with tongues on each side of channel. Burn marks. Underbody near Eph. B.

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