Loading
Lamp (3/4 view from above)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Amphitheater scene: big lion at left, with its right claw striking a fallen man whose raised right leg seems to be chained to a pole, which he is grasping.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part and one on lower. Shoulder with a row of ovolos, separated from discus by a braided ridge marked off by two circular grooves. Filling-hole and air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle; below it two striated bands between two twisted cords. Base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.
Show lessRead more
Details
- Title: Lamp (3/4 view from above)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 2nd century A.D.
- Location Created: North Africa, Tunisia
- Physical Dimensions: 5 × 7.5 × 10.6 cm (1 15/16 × 2 15/16 × 4 3/16 in.)
- Type: Lamp
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 81.AQ.38.3
- Culture: Roman
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, Gift of William L. Eagleton, Jr.
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Implements (Object Genre)
Additional Items
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
You are all set!
Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week.