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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Three comic theater masks evenly distributed. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with three grooves on upper part and one on lower. Sloping shoulder, separated from flat discus by a ridge surrounding most of discus and nozzle, leaving a straight broad but short channel between discus and wick-hole; a raised lug with a median groove symmetrically placed on each side of shoulder below median horizontal axis; small circle incised on each side of handle and of nozzle channel. Small central filling-hole. Small air hole in lower field near the channel. Short round-tipped nozzle. Base with two rings, the interior one narrower than the outer one. Plain planta pedis.

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