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Lamp

Date

1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with one groove in the back of the bed, supporting a kind of bowl pierced by a filling-hole. Big-bellied nude Silenus half lying on reclined seat, resting on a wineskin, a mantle partly covering his shoulders; he is half bald with a large curly beard and moustache; both his hands are holding a bowl, which in fact is the rounded nozzle of the lamp, pierced by a wick-hole. Flat plain base.

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