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Lamp

Date

1st–2nd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Theater mask. Description: Moldmade. Outward-sloping shoulder, separated from flat discus by a continuous ridge surrounding most of the discus and nozzle, leaving a broad channel between discus and wick-hole; a symmetrically placed lug on each side of the shoulder, slightly below the median horizontal axis. Large filling-hole in lower field. Small air hole in channel. Protruding long nozzle with rounded tip. Flat base marked off by two rings, the outer one slightly thicker than the inner one. Workshop signature in relief capital letters upside-down: OCTAVI.

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