Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Four unconventionally represented Cupids with short squarish wings, active around an unidentified structure--portico or shop interior(?). Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Intact. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part. Shoulder near Loeschcke form VIII b, with knotted laurel-wreath decor; ridge with herringbone-pattern separating shoulder from discus. Central filling-hole. Air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle; above it, raised line with centrally dotted double-circle; under nozzle, a striated band between two curved corded lines. Slightly raised base-ring marked off by two grooves; additional inner circle; at middiameter, two close circles; in intermediate space, four small evenly spaced double circles.

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