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Lamp

Date

3rd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Meleager and the Calydonian boar. Meleager at left, nude except for a hat and a mantle fastened over his shoulders, is charging with a spear; boar at right is hiding under a tree, only its forequarters are visible. Description: Moldmade. Solid round handle. Shoulder with a row of long ovolos, separated from discus by a thin twisted cord marked off by two circular grooves. Filling-hole slightly above center, with traces of iron corrosion. Air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle. Raised rounded base-ring; within it fourteen radiating lines form a star-pattern.

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