Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: A man walking to right in a garment that leaves arms and legs bare, a vessel on his left shoulder. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on both parts. Deep basin. Shoulder with a row of triangles alternately pointing inward and outward between two ridges; second inner thicker ridge surrounding both discus and nozzle top, leaving a short narrow "strangled" channel between them. Filling-hole on right side. Air hole in lower field. Short round-tipped nozzle surrounded by a raised edge. Raised base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.

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