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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Woman at left wearing flat-topped bonnet and double garment, upper one with folds ending in border, lower one vertically pleated; she is performing some domestic task, helped by a young man in loincloth sitting on a stool at right; he is killing a fowl (duck[?]); the woman is bent in front of him holding out a round vessel to collect blood. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with three grooves on upper part. Deep basin. Shoulder: near Loeschcke form VI b; small incised circle on each side of handle and of nozzle. Filling-hole below center. Air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle, Bus. 10b, with burn marks. Base marked off by one circular groove. Plain planta pedis.

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