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

Discus Iconography: Three identical theater masks evenly spaced in flat upper half of discus. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Pierced ring handle with three grooves on upper part. Deep body. Flat shoulder, separated from discus by a flat-topped ridge marked off by two grooves and interrupted by a short channel between discus and nozzle; small rectangular panel on each side of shoulder. Ridge marked off by two grooves surrounding slightly concave discus. Central filling-hole. Small air hole in discus, facing nozzle. Small rounded nozzle encroaching on shoulder, close to form Bus. 4g. Base marked off by one circular groove. Plain planta pedis.

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