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Lamp

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

Discus Iconography: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle. Small egg-shaped body. No specific shoulder or discus: the entire flat top of the lamp is decorated with several obliquely placed straight thin grooves and four rows of very small dots. Central filling-hole. Air hole above wick-hole. Oval flat base delimited by a groove whose two ends prolong themselves underneath the nozzle. Incised Potter's mark: RV.VSI(?).

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