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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade. Bow-shaped ear handle on each side of body; each bow has small circles in its outer section and a larger sunken semicircular area in its center. Deep body with sloping sides. Shoulder: Loeschcke form IV b. Concave discus with central filling-hole. Small air hole at entrance of short V-shaped channel in front of nozzle. Both left and right shoulders show slanted cut at junction with rounded nozzle, wick-hole being lower. Flat base marked off by one circular groove.

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