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Lamp

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

Discus Iconography: Frontal Silenus head in pronounced relief. Elaborate vine wreath. Description: Moldmade. A raised edge surrounds the circular top of the lamp. Inward-sloping shoulder with a row of ovolos between two thin ridges, the inner one beaded. Flat discus pierced by two symmetrical filling-holes. Splayed volute-nozzle curved at tip with prominent volute-spines. Between them several curved lines and an air hole. Raised base-ring. Two volute-knobs joined together by two semicircular thin ridges under nozzle.

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