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Lamp

Date

1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Bull standing to left on groundline, head frontal. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Shoulder with a row of medium-sized double ovolos, separated from discus by a twisted cord marked off by two circular grooves. Deep basin. Filling-hole slightly below center. Small air hole on shoulder, facing the heart-shaped nozzle; below, a band of eight tongues. Base-ring marked off by two circular grooves and an additional inner circle. Workshop mark: three vertical palm branches hanging from a horizontal line.

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