Vases Lamp
Lamp

Lamp

1st–4th century A.D.
Discus Iconography: Dancing Bacchus; muscular nude male figure standing frontally, looking upward, right arm outstretched with hand open, left hand holding a tympanon; possibly wearing a wreath; animal skin (leopard[?]) hanging behind him from shoulder, paw visible to left of figure, a feline head to right.

Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Shoulder: Loeschcke form III a var. Filling-hole in lower right. Voluted angular-tipped nozzle. Raised base-ring defined by two grooves.
Date
1st–4th century A.D.
Culture
Roman
Dimensions
H: 2.70 cm D: 7.00 cm
Museum
J. Paul Getty Museum
Accession Number
83.AQ.377.20
Image Source
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Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)