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Date: 1st–4th century A.D.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Europa, seen frontally, riding to the left on a bull (Jupiter), veil floating behind her. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ornament ring handle in the shape of a bearded head: Serapis with calathus; one groove on handle. Straight body walls, sloping inward toward base. Curved shoulder richly decorated with vegetal pattern, separated from a rather small discus by two wide moldings; narrow voluted ear on each side. Filling-hole in lower left. Nozzle close to Bus. 2d; relief decor on its top (head). Base-ring marked off by two circular grooves. Potter's mark: a branch.

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