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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade. Biconvex body. The top has a small concave discus marked off by one groove and pierced by the central filling-hole; the left and right sides of the wide surrounding area are decorated with symmetrical ears-of-grain patterns represented by parallel lines for beard and by cross-grooves, creating small relief squares for the grains. Short rounded nozzle hardly detached from the lamp body; the nozzle top has a vertical branch-pattern with two short grooves and a dot on each side. Poorly defined base with five oval notches around central dot.

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