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Lamp

Date

1st century B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade. Ribbon handle with a median groove. Deep body. Inward-sloping plain shoulder. Between shoulder and discus, a cable band and outer groove. Depressed flat-bottomed discus with central filling-hole. Flat, splayed nozzle with blunt end; nozzle top has two stylized bird's heads turned in opposite directions, separated by a grooved channel extending from discus to wick-hole. Raised circular base defined by one groove.

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