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Lamp

Date

3rd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Relief of half-nude tipsy Silenus sitting on a mule, holding in his left hand a thyrsus resting on his shoulder; animal skin hanging from the thyrsus; a jug of wine is in his right hand. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Intact. Inward-sloping shoulder with five rills. Off-center filling-hole. Air hole on nozzle top unexpectedly large and rectangular. Splayed angular nozzle with volutes and prominent volute-spines. Three concentric base-rings. Illegible Potter's mark in relief.

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