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Accession_Number

26.12.27

Shape

Pyxis with lid

Shape_description

Body narrows slightly towards top. At the bottom of the body there is a wider ledge attached to which there are three moulded lion paws as feet.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

5YR 6/3

Decoration

The inside is streaky black, the outside is unpainted except the ledge at the bottom of the body which is streaky black. The flange supports the lid. The lid fits over the body to rest on the flange. The top of the lid is also flanged. From the middle of this flange rises a cut-off, grooved cone. The main surface of the lid is decorated with a streaky glaze with a repetitive pattern: two reserved vertical lines followed by a reserved oval. This seems to have been repeated around the whole body but one half of the glaze/pattern is missing.

Inscriptions

Condition

Body: complete, comprised of rejoined pieces (foot), cracked and chipped along flange. Lid: reconstructed with some parts missing, large chip on top of lid. Decoration on lid completely faded on one side.

Technique/Style

Provenance

Period

Hellenistic

Date

3 c.

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2002.97.0539.jpg	Side view of a Hellenistic pyxis.
2002.97.0540.jpg	Top view of a Hellenistic pyxis, showing the interior.
2002.97.0541.jpg	Bottom view of a Hellenistic pyxis, showing the three lion paw feet.
2002.97.0542.jpg	Side view of a Hellenistic pyxis lid, showing the damaged lid.
2002.97.0543.jpg	Top view of a Hellenistic pyxis lid, showing the circle pattern on the top of the lid.
2002.97.0544.jpg	Side view of a Hellenistic pyxis, showing the damaged lid.
2003.36.0097.jpg	Pyxis, side view.
2003.36.0099.jpg	Pyxis, side view, without lid.
2007.01.0031.jpg	Side view of a Hellenistic pyxis, with a top view of the lid next to it.
2007.01.0032.jpg	Top view of the lid.
2007.01.0033.jpg	Side view of a Hellenistic pyxis, showing the lid.