Terracotta oil lamp
Loeschcke Type 4. Mold-made. Discus: in high relief, a biga (two-horse chariot), facing right, with driver holding a whip over the horses' back, and their front legs raised; the chariot's wheel decorated like a rosette; a ground line below; a single filling hole below the horses, with a band of raised lines and grooves towards the edge. Shortened, stylized volutes flanking nozzle, with large wick hole. Within impressed base ring, a flat base with the incised marker's mark: ROMANE/SIS (both S retrograde), and a hollow O below.
One large hole in right side of shoulder.
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