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Lamp

Date

late 1st–early 2nd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Two helmeted gladiators in combat; the right one, lifting both arms, has dropped his shield and holds a short sword in his left hand; the left one, who seems to be the winner, is raising a rectangular convex shield and holdinga sica. Description: Moldmade. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII b. Central filling-hole. Small air hole on upper part of round-tipped volute-nozzle. Base marked off by one circular groove. Blurred Potter's signature; of five or six letters only the first is legible: C.

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