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Lamp

Date

1st century B.C.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Description: Moldmade. Wide shoulder with an inner row of tongues separated by a twisted cord from an outer downward-sloping row of small semicircles. Circular carinated flat body with large dolphin-shaped lug, pierced diagonally, rising steeply from shoulder on the left side. Slightly concave small discus, separated from the shoulder by a raised ring. Central filling-hole surrounded by a ring. Exceptionally long nozzle with a splayed spade-shaped tip; on its top, a thin U-shaped ridge, whose ends terminate in curled volutes on shoulder; torch motif between voluted ridges. Raised oval base-ring marked off by two grooves.

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