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Lamp (Main View, 3/4 view from above)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Erotic scene in pronounced relief with two lovers on a bed, the woman is lying and her mate is kneeling, holding up her legs.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Flat shoulder with several rills close to Loeschcke form I. Slightly depressed discus. V-shaped channel between discus and nozzle. Splayed volute-nozzle curved at tip; burn marks. Slightly concave base marked off by one circular groove.
Type: Loeschcke I A; Bailey A group i
Details
- Title: Lamp (Main View, 3/4 view from above)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1st century B.C.–4th century A.D.
- Location Created: Roman Empire
- Physical Dimensions: 3.1 × 7 × 10 cm (1 1/4 × 2 3/4 × 3 15/16 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.377.395
- Culture: Roman
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Implements (Object Genre)
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