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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Ulysses, at left, wearing a tunic and a pointed cap, holding out a cup of wine to Polyphemus, at right; the giant, sitting on a rock, is grasping the body of a dead sailor in his left hand. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Inward-sloping shoulder with six rills. Splayed angle-tipped nozzle with volutes and prominent volute-spines. Slightly raised base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.

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