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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Bust of Serapis, body frontal, head to left, wearing calathus and draped garment; scepter at right. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves. Shoulder: variant of Loeschcke form VIII b, with a row of double-ovolos, separated from the discus by a herringbone-pattern between two grooves. Filling-hole in left part. Small air hole in discus, facing nozzle. Nozzle form Bus. 4a. Base marked off by one circular groove. Potter's incuse signature: EXOFICI/NA.C.V.S., African workshop active end of second to early third century A.D.; double ovolo under signature.

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