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Lamp (3/4 profile from above)

Unknown

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

Discus Iconography: Rosette of fourteen or fifteen petals within a circular flat band.

Description: Moldmade. Solid vertical round handle with two grooves on both upper and lower parts. Convex shoulder with two rows of globules, separated from discus by a ridge surrounding both discus and nozzle top, leaving a narrow channel between them. Central filling-hole. Unpierced air hole facing the channel. Short round-tipped nozzle. Raised base-ring; lower part of lamp is recorded as Eph. A, with large plain blurred planta pedis.

Details

  • Title: Lamp (3/4 profile from above)
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 1st–4th century A.D.
  • Location Created: South Anatolia, Anatolia
  • Physical Dimensions: 2.4 × 5.8 × 8.6 cm (15/16 × 2 5/16 × 3 3/8 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.377.284
  • 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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