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Lamp

Date

perhaps 2nd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Plain discus. Description: Boat-shaped lamp. Moldmade. Solid rounded vertical handle at each end. Flat oval deck, slightly depressed, edged with a raised flat rim; fore and aft on deck, two cylindrical striated bulks (coiled ropes[?]) between two small globules; two additional globules at the base of one handle; small unidentified round objects beside each bulk. Two flat nozzles on each side of the boat. On the right side of the upper bulk possibly two letters, P and R (the Potter's initials), as on Möhring's identical lamp no. 84 with a better relief. Lozenge-shaped filling-hole in the middle of the deck. Flat base.

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