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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Four beaded horseshoe motifs arranged in cross-form (Répertoire, Hb18); the motif applied at right detached itself from the prototype before firing: an interesting evidence of the appliqué technique used in making Hayes type II lamp molds. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Solid spikelike handle flattened on sides. Oval elongated body. Shoulder: alternating stamps of beaded squares and concentric circles (Répertoire, Af5 and Da20). Discus surrounded by ridge, continuing around nozzle to form broad channel. Long nozzle with broad channel flanked on each side by pseudovolutes. Raised rounded base-ring connected by ridges to handle and to upper part of pseudovolute.

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