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

Discus Iconography: Medusa head with snakes knotted under chin, surrounded by waves or imbricated S-pattern. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Deep body with sloping sides. Shoulder with several rills, innermost band being wider. Filling-hole in lower field. Unpierced tiny air hole between shoulder-rills in front of nozzle. Unusually short and small volute-nozzle with rounded tip; burn marks. Three circular rounded ridges on base, separated by grooves.

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