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Lamp

Date

1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Orpheus sitting on a rock in three-quarter view to right, tree behind him, playing the lyre to four listening animals; clockwise from top of discus: bird (possibly duck), doe or deer, sheep, and dog; a small child, partly cut by filling-hole, sits on a stool watching Orpheus. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with one central groove on both parts. Slightly outward-sloping shoulder with a row of ovolos, separated from discus by a ridge and two circular grooves. Central filling-hole. Heart-shaped nozzle with burn marks. Vague base-ring. Small plain planta pedis.

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