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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: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade. Ornament handle with ovoid leaf decorated with vine leaves around relief head of Bacchus; ring behind. Deep nearly cylindrical body. Shoulder: Loeschcke form I. Flat sunken discus with two rings midway between shoulder and central filling-hole. Two small air holes on discus, a third on nozzle top. Long protruding round-tipped nozzle flanked by two volutes with prominent knobs. Undefined base-ring.

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