Lamp
1st–4th century A.D.
Discus Iconography: Three blurred and hardly visible theater masks evenly spaced.
Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with three grooves on upper part, one on lower. Rounded shoulder, separated from discus by a ridge marked off by two grooves surrounding most of discus and channel; square incised mark with central dot, reminiscent of shoulder lugs, symmetrically placed on each side of shoulder; small circle incised on each side of handle and of nozzle channel. Small central filling-hole. Air hole in lower field partly hiding one mask. Short round-tipped nozzle. Flat base-ring marked off by two circular grooves. Large incuse plain planta pedis in center.
Description: Moldmade. Ring handle with three grooves on upper part, one on lower. Rounded shoulder, separated from discus by a ridge marked off by two grooves surrounding most of discus and channel; square incised mark with central dot, reminiscent of shoulder lugs, symmetrically placed on each side of shoulder; small circle incised on each side of handle and of nozzle channel. Small central filling-hole. Air hole in lower field partly hiding one mask. Short round-tipped nozzle. Flat base-ring marked off by two circular grooves. Large incuse plain planta pedis in center.
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