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Lamp

Date

A.D. 175–230

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: View of city seen from a harbor; left to right on first level: house, portico with four columns, gate, building with pediment, possible temple; on second level: three important buildings, one of them circular with domed roof; two fishermen in foreground, the right one seated in a boat is angling with a fishing pole; the other, standing at left, is fishing with a net; reefs or jetty made of big stone blocks behind him. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with three grooves on upper part and two on lower. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII a. Central filling-hole. Small air hole on ridge near nozzle. Volute-nozzle with slightly rounded, rather than definitely angular tip; ridge joining volutes on its underside. Raised base-ring with two inner rings; central cavity, such as mentioned by Bailey on late Ephesus lamps.

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