Lamp
1st–4th century A.D.
Discus Iconography: A man walking to right in a garment that leaves arms and legs bare, a vessel on his left shoulder.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on both parts. Deep basin. Shoulder with a row of triangles alternately pointing inward and outward between two ridges; second inner thicker ridge surrounding both discus and nozzle top, leaving a short narrow "strangled" channel between them. Filling-hole on right side. Air hole in lower field. Short round-tipped nozzle surrounded by a raised edge. Raised base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with two grooves on both parts. Deep basin. Shoulder with a row of triangles alternately pointing inward and outward between two ridges; second inner thicker ridge surrounding both discus and nozzle top, leaving a short narrow "strangled" channel between them. Filling-hole on right side. Air hole in lower field. Short round-tipped nozzle surrounded by a raised edge. Raised base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)