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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 with two grooves on upper part. Deep horseshoe-shaped body. Outward-sloping shoulder with a row of small incised circles, separated from discus by a ridge marked off by two grooves. Flat-bottomed discus with sloping sides. Central filling-hole. Long triangular nozzle, well detached from the lamp body, flanked, on its top part, by two volutes with a row of the same small circles as on shoulder. Flat base with two semicircular depressions, each flanked by two small stamped circles. Plain planta pedis.

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