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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. Solid flattened handle sloping backward. Rounded body with tapering nozzle. Broad flat shoulder edged by a thin slightly raised ridge; on each side of the handle is a big ring decorated with one central globule and a circular row of eleven similar globules; another slightly smaller ring, with a row of ten globules, is in front of the wick-hole. Flat discus surrounded by a raised ring. Central filling-hole. Tapering rather short round-tipped nozzle. Slightly sunken undefined base.

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