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Lamp

Date

3rd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Two winged Cupids on groundline (twisted cord); the left one supporting his visibly tipsy companion, perhaps infant Bacchus holding a big bunch of grapes. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII a, with vine-leaves alternating with grapes in pronounced relief. Filling-hole with corroded iron wick-nail at right side of discus. Tiny air hole in front of nozzle. Heart-shaped nozzle, Bus. 10c, with burn marks. Base with peripheral band marked off by two circular grooves; an additional inner groove; within the band, three evenly spaced ovo-patterns: common on African lamps dated A.D. 170 - 230 (see 83.AQ.377.230 or 83.AQ.377.218).

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