Photos and basic inventory card

Lamps of the Bailey Type A Group III

N1/Getty Museum Catalogue, Inv: 83.AQ.377.14

N2/Getty Museum Catalogue, Inv: 83.AQ.377.40

N3/Getty Museum Catalogue, Inv: 83.AQ.377.558

Catalogue

N1 | Inventory Number: 83.AQ.377.14
Dimensions: L: 9.1 cm; W: 6.9 cm; H: 3.0 cm
Condition and Fabric: Clay near 5YR 6/4 light reddish brown, glaze
mostly 10R5/6 red.
Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Intact. Inward-sloping
shoulder with three rills. Filling-hole lower right. Tiny unpierced air
hole on top of voluted angular-tipped nozzle. Raised base-ring marked
off by two circular grooves.
Discus Iconography: Two fighting gladiators (Thraces); the left one
has dropped his small rectangular shield, the right one is attacking,
raising his shield to protect his face; each wears loincloth, crested
helmet, and greaves.
Type: Loeschcke I B; Bailey A group iii
Date: Augustan to Tiberian
Place of Manufacture or Origin: Anatolia
Parallels: Bémont 2005, p. 159, no. 5, fig. 10, who refers to Cazes and
Landes 1987, fig. 32, Nimes Museum.

N2 | Inventory Number: 83.AQ.377.40
Dimensions: L: 10.0 cm; W: 7.3 cm; H: 3.0 cm
Condition and Fabric: Intact. Clay 5YR6/8 reddish yellow, mottled
glaze 2.5YR5/4 reddish brown.
Description: Moldmade. Inward-sloping shoulder with three rills.
Central filling-hole. Voluted angular-tipped nozzle; burn marks. Raised
base-ring marked off by two circular grooves.
Discus Iconography: Two nude pugilists fighting with gloves (cesti);
the left one has the upper hand.
Type: Loeschcke I B; Bailey A group iii
Date: Augustan to Tiberian
Place of Manufacture or Origin: Anatolia
Parallels: None found. For other representations of pugilists, see
Bailey BM II, pp. 59–60, III (e) I; Bussière 2000, p. 188, decor II.d.6.(4).
Provenance: Before 1983, Hans-Klaus Schüller, 1921–2009 (Bergheim,
Germany); 1983, Galerie Günter Puhze (Freiburg, Germany), sold to
the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983.
Bibliography: Unpublished.

N3 | Inventory Number: 83.AQ.377.558
Dimensions: L: 10.5 cm; W: 7.3 cm; H: 2.8 cm
Condition and Fabric: A few surface chips. Clay 10YR6/3 pale brown,
uneven glaze mostly 10YR3/2 very dark grayish brown.
Description: Moldmade. Inward-sloping shoulder with five rills.
Unusually deep discus. Filling-hole in the lower part of discus. Splayed,
angle-tipped volute-nozzle. Raised base-ring marked off by two circular
grooves and a circular thin inner ridge. Workshop mark: letter A .
Discus Iconography: Lion (to right, head frontal) attacking a mule; the
lion’s right foreleg laid across the mule’s belly.
Type: Loeschcke I B; Bailey A group iii
Date: Augustan to Tiberian
Place of Manufacture or Origin: Unknown
Parallels: Ponsich 1961, no. 114, pl. 11 (fr.); Vegas 1966a, no. 96/124/222,
pl. 8 (Novaesium); Lyster 1970, fig. 6.17 (Loeschcke IV); Heres 1972, no.
136, pl. 18 (Loeschcke IV); Leibundgut 1977, p. 177, nos. 270–71, motif