Lamp

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Lamp

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Date
1st–4th century A.D.
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Roman
Department
Implements
Institution
Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Rosette of twenty-four concave petals. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Deep body with sloping sides. Flat shoulder with several rills. Deep flat-bottomed discus with sloping wall; two rings around central filling-hole, outer ring much broader than inner one. Unpierced air hole on flat top of nozzle. Angular-tipped nozzle flanked by shoulder-volutes without spines, as on Loeschcke type V. Base-ring marked off by two grooves. Potter's signature: PHOETASPI, workshop active in the Flavian period.

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