Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

4th–6th century

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Young man with ample hair wearing long-sleeved tunic and mantle is holding out a wreath: a martyr, Apostle, or Christ. Around him clockwise from his head: small dove, Eucharistic vase, branch with five leaves, bigger dove, small dove. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Solid spikelike handle flattened on sides. Oval elongated body. Shoulder with alternating motifs: vases (Répertoire Oa12), concentric circles (Répertoire, Da19), and quatrefoils (Répertoire, Fa23). Ridge encircles discus, continuing onto nozzle to form wide channel. Equal-sized filling-holes at right and left. Long nozzle with broad channel. Raised rounded base-ring connected to handle; two thin concentric circles in middle of base.

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