Terracotta oil lamp
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Vessberg Type 18. Unpierced handle. Mold-made. Discus: victorious racehorse running left and wearing ornate collar, with palm branch above head, flanked to either side by herringbone wreath. Above horse: indistinct letters, perhaps OΛH; below horse: in retrograde, YΓIA. Two large filling holes above and below horse. On shoulder, vine tendril with stylized bunches of grapes. Rounded nozzle with large wick hole. Undefined, deep concave base, with large faint letters in relief arranged around edge, probably reading: EYTYXHTOC.
Top of handle worn, slight cracking on shoulder. Sooting around nozzle. Reddish buff clay.
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