Terracotta oil lamp
Not on view
Loeschcke Type 4. Mold-made. Discus: maenad moving to left with head thrown back, wearing an animal-skin girdle, holding knife or dagger in right hand behind her, and dismembered object in outstretched left hand; a single, filling hole at right; broad band of lines and grooves towards edge. Volutes flanking nozzle; large wick hole. Incised base ring, and uneven base.
Complete, except for one small hole at top of discus, another in right side of body near nozzle, and a third on base.
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