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Lamp (Top)
Unknown
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Discus Iconography: Rosette of twenty-four concave petals.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Deep body with sloping sides. Flat shoulder with several rills. Deep flat-bottomed discus with sloping wall; two rings around central filling-hole, outer ring much broader than inner one. Unpierced air hole on flat top of nozzle. Angular-tipped nozzle flanked by shoulder-volutes without spines, as on Loeschcke type V. Base-ring marked off by two grooves. Potter's signature: PHOETASPI, workshop active in the Flavian period.
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Details
- Title: Lamp (Top)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1st–4th century A.D.
- Location Created: North Africa
- Physical Dimensions: 2.4 × 5.6 × 7.6 cm (15/16 × 2 3/16 × 3 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.377.77
- 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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