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Lamp

Date

4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Syrian

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Circular beaded band surrounding filling-hole. Description: Moldmade. Broad rectangular stump handle with five ridges on upper part, two on lower. Elongated body. Ridge surrounding both discus and nozzle top, leaving a straight broad channel connecting them. On outward-sloping shoulder a twisted cord on each side of the lamp from the handle to the beginning of the channel. Large central lipped filling-hole. At top of nozzle, a small raised dotted ring. Long channeled nozzle with rounded tip. Slightly raised base-ring marked off by one deep outer circular groove; within, a rosette of nine small dotted circles and an additional one in the center.

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