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Lamp

Date

2nd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Hippocamp, mythic sea creature with the head of a horse and the twisted tail of a fish, rushing left. Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII a, with a laurel-wreath decor of leaves and berries. Filling-hole slightly right above center. Air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle. Raised base-ring marked off by two grooves (decorated with three ovo-patterns); two additional inner circles.

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