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Lamp (Bottom)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Two wading birds to right; the one at right lying, the other standing on groundline.
Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with one groove on upper part. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VIII b, with sinuous floral pattern; tendrils and leaves on right shoulder; tendrils, four leaves, and one fruit on left shoulder. Filling-hole lower left. Long nozzle with shoulder-volutes and ogival tip; unpierced air hole at top of nozzle. Raised base-ring marked off by two grooves.
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Details
- Title: Lamp (Bottom)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: about late 1st–2nd century A.D.
- Location Created: North Africa, Tunisia
- Physical Dimensions: 5.4 × 7.9 × 13.5 cm (2 1/8 × 3 1/8 × 5 5/16 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.38.4
- 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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