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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, from plaster mold. Solid round vertical handle with two continuous grooves. Square biconical flattened body. Square lamp top edged by two parallel ridges with a groove between them; on the lower side of the discus, the ridges turn into a V-shape toward the wick-hole. Two further ridges, separated by a groove, frame the square; slightly depressed central area of the discus. Big central filling-hole. Air hole in the V-shaped zone. Round-tipped, well-detached nozzle; wick-hole with flat circular plate. Rectangular base marked off by a ridge.

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