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Lamp (Main View, 3/4 view from above)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Plain discus.
Description: Moldmade. Handle is an almost-conical backward-leaning stump. Biconical deep body. Large central filling-hole surrounded by a ring. Long tapering upturned nozzle; two parallel curved grooves across the nozzle neck. Slightly raised base marked off by one circular groove.
Details
- Title: Lamp (Main View, 3/4 view from above)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1st–4th century A.D.
- Location Created: Asia Minor
- Physical Dimensions: 3 × 5.2 × 8 cm (1 3/16 × 2 1/16 × 3 1/8 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.377.303
- 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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