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Date: 1st–4th century A.D.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part, one on lower. Pear-shaped elongated deep body. Rounded shoulder with small circle on each side of handle; ridge marked off by two grooves separating shoulder from concave discus and continuing to nozzle. The ridge creates a wide channel with curved sides between discus and nozzle. Central filling-hole. Rounded nozzle, flanked by two small circles; on each side of underside of nozzle two parallel straight vertical grooves. Raised rounded base-ring marked off by two circular grooves; rosette with seven globules in relief in center.

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