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Lamp

Date

A.D. 175–230

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Harbor scene showing semicircular portico with a row of evenly spaced columns and a tile roof; reefs in the foreground, two small boats in the harbor; in the upper one, a man is rowing to right; in the lower one, two mariners, the left one, with a hat, lifting an unclear round object. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part. Shoulder separated from concave discus by three circular rills. Filling-hole at left with remains of corroded iron wick-nail. Air hole in lower field. Volute-nozzle with angular tip; on top, small boat in relief; raised fleur-de-lis motif on nozzle underside. Grooved raised base-ring. Potter's incuse signature: PORCI.

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