Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

4th century B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Male or female(?) bust in pronounced relief, smiling, looking down to left; abundant curly hair. Description: Moldmade. Solid vertical round handle with one groove on upper part. Slightly oval body. Outward-sloping shoulder with relief vine-grapes; circular groove around discus. Two symmetrically placed filling-holes, one on each side of discus. Slightly elongated round-tipped nozzle with a circular ridge around wick-hole; burn marks. Underbody Eph. B. Large incuse plain planta pedis.

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