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Date: 1st–4th century A.D.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Dolphin with curled-up tail to right, head down. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part. Flat shoulder with a row of ovolos, separated from discus by a molding consisting of two ridges marked off by three circular grooves; a small half-sunk globule on each side of handle base and of nozzle top. Central filling-hole. Unpierced air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle. Base marked off by one circular groove.

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