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Date: A.D. 450–550
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Beaded Chi-Rho monogram; small palmette under it. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Solid spikelike handle flattened on sides. Oval elongated body. Shoulder with alternating concentric circles and beaded triangles. One filling-hole on each side of discus. Discus surrounded by ridge, continuing around nozzle to form broad channel. Burn marks on nozzle. Base marked off by a ridge from which another ridge extends to the handle; two thin concentric circles in the middle of the base.

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