Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

500–600

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Monogrammatic Greek cross with rho turned right. Alpha and omega above the transverse bars of the cross; lamb at foot of the cross; above its hindquarters, a star or sun with six rays. Description: Moldmade. Vertical round solid handle with two grooves on upper part; lower part ending in a fishtail. Narrow outward-sloping shoulder with a continuous row of globules, separated from discus by two grooves. Large flat-bottomed discus. Slightly protruding heart-shaped nozzle with a raised wick-area and an unclear relief between it and shoulder. Underbody Eph. B. Large incuse plain planta pedis.

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