Antiquities

Antiquities

Lamp

Discus Iconography: Bust of bearded Mars, body in frontal view, head to right; wearing crested helmet with visor and cuirass; an arrow behind him. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with three grooves on both upper and lower parts. Shoulder: Loeschcke form VIII b, with three rows of globules. Filling-hole left of center, with traces of corrosion from former iron wick-nail. Air hole at lower edge of discus, facing nozzle. Heart-shaped nozzle, Bus. 10b; underneath, a row of small tongues between two twisted cords. Flat-topped slightly raised base-ring marked off by two grooves: between them three evenly spaced ovo-patterns: Midway toward center, two further incised circles; one small dotted circle in center.