Lamp (3/4 profile from above)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Two winged Cupids on groundline (twisted cord); the left one supporting his visibly tipsy companion, perhaps infant Bacchus holding a big bunch of grapes.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII a, with vine-leaves alternating with grapes in pronounced relief. Filling-hole with corroded iron wick-nail at right side of discus. Tiny air hole in front of nozzle. Heart-shaped nozzle, Bus. 10c, with burn marks. Base with peripheral band marked off by two circular grooves; an additional inner groove; within the band, three evenly spaced ovo-patterns: common on African lamps dated A.D. 170 - 230 (see 83.AQ.377.230 or 83.AQ.377.218).
- Title: Lamp (3/4 profile from above)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 3rd century A.D.
- Location Created: Roman Empire
- Physical Dimensions: 4.8 × 8.3 × 11.9 cm (1 7/8 × 3 1/4 × 4 11/16 in.)
- Type: Lamp
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 83.AQ.352
- Culture: Roman
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, Gift of Kay Eagleton
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Implements (Object Genre)
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