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Lamp (3/4 view from above)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Two helmeted gladiators in combat; the right one, lifting both arms, has dropped his shield and holds a short sword in his left hand; the left one, who seems to be the winner, is raising a rectangular convex shield and holdinga sica.
Description: Moldmade. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII b. Central filling-hole. Small air hole on upper part of round-tipped volute-nozzle. Base marked off by one circular groove. Blurred Potter's signature; of five or six letters only the first is legible: C.
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Details
- Title: Lamp (3/4 view from above)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: late 1st–early 2nd century A.D.
- Location Created: North Africa, Tunisia
- Physical Dimensions: 2.3 × 7.5 × 10.4 cm (7/8 × 2 15/16 × 4 1/8 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.38.1
- 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)
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