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Lamp (Main View, 3/4 view from above)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Hippocamp, mythical sea monster to left with a lion's head, forequarters with claws, and a fishtail.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two blurred grooves. Deep body. Narrow flat shoulder with two rows of impressed dots. Filling-hole near center of discus. Air hole on its lower edge. Heart-shaped nozzle, Bus. 10b. Base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.
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: 3.2 × 9.5 × 12.3 cm (1 1/4 × 3 3/4 × 4 13/16 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.377.238
- 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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