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Lamp

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

Discus Iconography: Ulysses and Neoptolemus stealing the bow of Philoctetes; bird (crow[?]) perching on Philoctetes' right foot; two wounded birds lying in the foreground. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VI b. The details of the discus iconography are not visible on the BM lamp discus, whose lower right part is missing. Filling-hole lower left. Base marked off by one circular groove. Potter's mark in slight relief: letter T.

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