Lamp
1st–4th century A.D.
Discus Iconography: Bust of Bacchus crowned with a vine wreath, holding a thyrsus in his left hand, a cantharus in his right. Behind him a leaping panther.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Slightly damaged filling-hole in lower discus. Shoulder: Loeschcke form III a. Voluted angular-tipped nozzle; burn marks. Base marked off by one circular groove.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Slightly damaged filling-hole in lower discus. Shoulder: Loeschcke form III a. Voluted angular-tipped nozzle; burn marks. Base marked off by one circular groove.
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)