Lamp

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Lamp

Creator

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Date
1st–4th century A.D.
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Roman
Department
Implements
Institution
Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: She-dog or she-wolf (swollen teats) chasing hare running to right in the upper field. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part, one on lower. Deep hexagonal body with sloping sides. Outward-sloping shoulder with a globule within a small circle at each angle of the lamp top. Discus encircled by a groove interrupted in front of the nozzle, where it ends in a volute with a knob on each side of the nozzle. Filling-hole lower right. Rounded nozzle with shoulder-volutes (as on Loeschcke type V); flat wick-hole area encroaching in tongue shape on discus surface. Pentagonal base marked off by one groove; globule at each angle. Plain planta pedis.

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