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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Two lares in short tunics and cloaks, one on either side of lit altar flanked by two trees; each lar walking down three steps carrying a small situla in inside hand, raised outside hand holding a rhyton; a curved groove links each lar's lifted hand to the altar. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with start of two grooves on upper part. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII b; square panel on each side of shoulder. Filling-hole left of altar. Unpierced air hole at bottom of discus. Nozzle form Bus. 4h. Base-ring marked off by two circular grooves. Potter's incuse signature: LMVNPHILE, Italic workshop, possibly with African branches, active Late Flavian to Hadrianic.

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