Lamp
1st–4th century A.D.
Discus Iconography: Nude Cupid or infant Bacchus riding lioness or panther rushing to right; unidentified sinuous shape behind the boy, staff on his left shoulder--thyrsus(?).
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part. Deep basin. Shoulder: near Loeschcke form VIII b; two small incised circles flanking handle and nozzle. Filling-hole in lower field. Unpierced air hole above heart-shaped nozzle with burn marks. Base marked off by one circular groove. Incuse plain planta pedis.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on upper part. Deep basin. Shoulder: near Loeschcke form VIII b; two small incised circles flanking handle and nozzle. Filling-hole in lower field. Unpierced air hole above heart-shaped nozzle with burn marks. Base marked off by one circular groove. Incuse plain planta pedis.
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)