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Lamp

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 and one on lower. Pear-shaped deep body. Plain rounded shoulder, separated from discus by two ridges, sloping toward discus; the inner ridge borders a heart-shaped plain discus, as does the outer one, which also continues to the pointed sides of the triangular nozzle; small circles on shoulder at each side of handle. In the curved top edge of discus are two smaller circles within a heart-shaped pattern. Central filling-hole. One more similar circle is on each pointed side of the nozzle. Base marked off by one tear-shaped groove; one small circle at its pointed end. Two more small circles on the wall of the basin, flanking the wider part of the base. Plain planta pedis.

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