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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Nude Cupid or infant Bacchus riding lioness or panther rushing to right; unidentified sinuous shape behind the boy, staff on his left shoulder--thyrsus(?). Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part. Deep basin. Shoulder: near Loeschcke form VIII b; two small incised circles flanking handle and nozzle. Filling-hole in lower field. Unpierced air hole above heart-shaped nozzle with burn marks. Base marked off by one circular groove. Incuse plain planta pedis.

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