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Lamp

Date

1st–4th century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Rosette of four heart-shaped leaves. Description: Moldmade. Ribbon handle (askew) with central groove. Body with sloping sides. Flat shoulder with groove and row of ovolos. On inward-sloping wall, a band of closely spaced rays, a ridge, and a ring of beads; flat discus bottom around central filling-hole. Between discus and wick-hole purely decorative V-shaped channel with closed ends (thus deprived of its function to drain any spilled oil). Round-tipped volute nozzle; conspicuous volute-spines. Raised base-ring.

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