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Date: 1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Roman
Department: Implements
Institution: Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Plain discus. Description: Moldmade. Crescent ornament handle with sunken crescent within; ring behind. Flat shoulder, separated from sunken flat-bottomed discus by a molding marked off by three descending grooves. Central filling-hole. Six medium-sized nozzles with rounded tips and flat oval raised wick-hole areas. Air hole in front of each nozzle on the shoulder; burn marks on two nozzles. Raised slightly concave base marked off by a groove. Incuse plain planta pedis.

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