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Lamp

Date

1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Two lares in short tunics and cloaks, one on each side of a lit altar flanked by two trees; both lares walking down three steps, each carrying a small situla in the inside hand, raised outside hand holding a rhyton. Description: Moldmade. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII a. Ring handle with start of two grooves on upper part of misshaped handle. Curved groove links each lar's lifted hand to the altar, indicating that each is pouring liquid from the rhyton into the situla. Filling-hole above center. Nozzle form Bus. 4e. Base marked off by one circular groove. Potter's incuse signature: COPPIRES.

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