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Lamp

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Date: 2nd century B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Description: Wheelmade. Miniature lamp. Rounded globular body tapering upward to neck with a splayed rim. Ring handle with deep median groove. On one side, extending nearly the entire height of the vessel, is a broad scooplike hand-modeled attachment; fire-blackened wick-hole at bottom, six smaller holes above. Flat raised circular base.

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