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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Standing nude couple embracing: Bacchus or satyr and maenad; he holds a pedum, she holds a big palm branch. Groundline. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Pierced conical handle with deep median groove from front to back. Slightly oval body. Convex shoulder with vine scroll and grapes, separated from discus by a ridge that surrounds both discus and nozzle top, leaving a long broad channel between them. Two filling-holes of equal size right and left of discus scene. Two semicircular grooves underneath nozzle. Raised base-ring with two narrow rings close to one another; the outer one continues into lower part of the handle.

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