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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Six-petaled rosette surrounded by three rings; outermost ring has a herringbone-pattern. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part, one on lower. Pear-shaped elongated deep body. Outward-sloping shoulder with a row of impressed circles containing an X with additional crossbar; two parallel ridges separate shoulder from discus and continue to nozzle, where they end in a volute. Very narrow channel with curved sides connecting discus to wick-hole area. Sunken discus. Central filling-hole. Small unpierced air hole on top of channel. Small rounded nozzle with burn marks. Flat base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.

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