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Lamp

Date

1st century A.D.

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Description: Ornament ring handle, whose inside has some postcasting repair; handle surmounted by curved leaf with marked veins, round knob at tip. Flat shallow circular body with rounded profile. Elaborate lathe-worked molding around central filling-hole, consisting of an outer flat-topped ring and two inner thinner ridges; additional raised lip around filling-hole. Long slender flat-topped nozzle (possibly filed flat postcasting) with single undecorated volutes, with somewhat uneven ribs down the side; spade-shaped tip with circular wick-hole. Raised base-ring with two thinner inner ridges; raised dot surrounded by lathe-turned raised ring in center.

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