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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: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Leaf-shaped ornament handle with ring behind. Slightly outward-sloping shoulder with a row of small ovolos, separated from slightly concave discus by a raised circular molding with inner circular notched groove. Small central filling-hole. Two round-tipped nozzles, each with two large volutes, central volute shared; between them a thyrsus with pinecone end, as on 83.AQ.377.507. Small knobs on lower ends of volutes, upper ends prominent and conspicuously arched. Raised base-ring, inside it three smaller rings.

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