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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Garland of acanthus leaves and lotus flowers. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Shoulder: Loeschcke form I. Shoulder separated from the narrow flat-bottomed central discus area by a garland. Filling-hole surrounded by three ridges. Small air hole in front of the angular-tipped volute-nozzle. Stamped ovolo underneath the nozzle. Raised base-ring marked off by two circular grooves. Potter's mark: C[ - ] I F(?). There seem to be four letters in slight relief. Under the base-ring a workshop mark stamped in the mold: an ovolo.

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