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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: At right, a kneeling Christian worshipper raising his arms as in worship of a Christogram (retrograde rho) in the upper left field. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Solid spikelike handle flattened on sides. Circular basin with long protruding volute-nozzle. Continuous shoulder-frame encircling discus, separating it from nozzle channel; on the shoulder, a row of beaded intertwined elongated S-shaped motifs. Two equal-sized filling-holes on discus, which is surrounded by a ridge. Long nozzle with broad channel flanked on each side by volutes. Raised rounded base-ring connected to handle and to volutes by ridges.

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