Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Mercury, standing frontal, head turned to left; nude except for a mantle draped around his neck and hanging down his left side; his left hand is holding a caduceus, his right a purse; at right, a cock atop a pedestal or altar; a turtle and scorpion in lower left field. Raised curtain in upper left field(?). Description: Moldmade. Solid ungrooved handle. Outward-sloping shoulder with a row of dots, separated from the flat discus by a herringbone ridge surrounding both discus and nozzle top, leaving a broad channel with slightly curved sides between discus and nozzle. Filling-hole left of center. Same size air hole in lower field. Blurred base-ring.

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