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Lamp (Main View, 3/4 view from above)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Frontal bust of actor wearing comic mask.
Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VII a. Filling-hole upper left. Small air hole in discus, facing nozzle. Nozzle form Bus. 4b. Base marked off by one circular groove. Potter's incuse signature: LMVNPHILE, Italic lampmaker possibly with African branches, active Late Flavian to Hadrianic period; above and below signature, two concentric circles.
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Details
- Title: Lamp (Main View, 3/4 view from above)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1st–4th century A.D.
- Location Created: North Africa
- Physical Dimensions: 2.2 × 6.4 × 9 cm (7/8 × 2 1/2 × 3 9/16 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.377.211
- 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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