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Lamp

Date

A.D. 175–230

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: At left, a piece of furniture or cista(?) with a coiled-up snake on top; facing it at right, an unclear conical shape raised on a square unidentified base; three radishes in foreground; second unclear shape in upper field of discus, possibly a fruit(?). Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII a. Central filling-hole. Air hole in lower field. Angular-tipped volute-nozzle; under it, a thick rounded ridge connecting the volutes. Raised base-ring marked off by two rings.

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