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Medallion from a Lamp

Date

3rd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

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Discus Iconography: Erotic scene. A woman to right on a bed, copulating with a horse upright on its hind legs. Description: Moldmade, with a large thumbprint in the clay to the right of the filling-hole on the inside. Athenian production. Shoulder-pattern, Perlzweig 1961, no. 11, pl. 51 (incised trefoil and reel). Shoulder separated from discus by a raised band, marked off by two incised circles. Filling-hole in upper right field.

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