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

Discus Iconography: Frontal eagle with spreading wings, head to left. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with one groove on both parts. Flat plain shoulder, separated from discus by a ridge marked off by two grooves; ridge surrounding both discus and nozzle top, leaving short narrow "strangled" channel between them. Filling-hole left of center. Air hole in lower discus. Short round-tipped nozzle surrounded by a raised edge with burn marks. Base marked off by one circular groove.

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