Getty Museum

Lamp

Date

A.D. 175–230

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Amphitheater scene: bear attacking a man falling at left, one knee on the ground; another man (bestiarius) at right whipping the beast, his left hand seeming to hold a cord or another whip(?); the attacked man's whip may be below the groundline. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Flat shoulder decorated with a band of narrow ovolos marked off by two circular grooves. Filling-hole in upper field, air hole in lower. Angular-tipped volute-nozzle with bilobed motif on top; raised fleur-de-lis on its underside. Raised base-ring consisting of three rings marked off by four grooves. Potter's incuse upside-down signature VICT/ORINI.

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