Lamp with Chi-Rho Monogram

Mold-made, terracotta lamp: oval body with long nozzle, now broken, with wide shallow channel between the wick hole and the filling hole; traces of burning on the mouth. The handle is grooved and unpierced. shoulders decorated with a groove pattern forming a circle around the area of the filling-hole; the filling-hole area is decorated with the Chi-Rho symbol, flanked by two filling holes. The lamp stands on a flat base within which is impressed a loop-like groove that extends towards the rear of the lamp and a circle within the loop, possibly a makers' mark. Classification: Hayes, Type I.