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

Discus Iconography: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade. Outward-sloping shoulder, separated from flat discus by a ridge; symmetrically placed lug on each side below median horizontal axis. Central filling-hole. Protruding rounded nozzle with semicircular raised wick-hole area; short nozzle neck with broad deep median groove between two slanted sides. Small air hole in the groove. Flat base marked off by two rings, the outer one thicker than the inner one. Workshop signature in relief capital letters upside-down: FORTIS; crown or wreath under it.

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