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

Discus Iconography: Apollo, nude, driving his chariot to right drawn by two griffins. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with three grooves on upper and lower part. Deep body. Shoulder with closely spaced tongues, separated from discus by two circular grooves. Filling-hole slightly left of center. Unpierced air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle; below, striated band between two twisted cords. Rounded raised base-ring marked off by two circular grooves and a second thin inner circular ridge; small dotted circle in center.

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