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Lamp (3/4 view from above)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Mars Ultor with crested helmet walking left, long spear in right hand and trophy over left shoulder.
Description: Moldmade. Shoulder: Loeschcke form III a. Filling-hole lower right, with remains of corroded iron wick-nail. Unpierced air hole at top of nozzle. Voluted angular-tipped nozzle. Base marked off by one circular groove.
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Details
- Title: Lamp (3/4 view from above)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: first half of 1st century A.D.
- Location Created: North Africa, Tunisia
- Physical Dimensions: 2.6 × 7.2 × 10.2 cm (1 × 2 13/16 × 4 in.)
- Type: Lamp
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 81.AQ.38.7
- Culture: Roman
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, Gift of William L. Eagleton, Jr.
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Implements (Object Genre)
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