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Accession_Number

60.1.4A-B

Shape

Globular pyxis with lid

Shape_description

Pyxis: inverted rim slightly hanging over bulbous body; small, ring torus foot above a slight groove; convex underside Lid: Gently slopes up to stem and donut shaped knob.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Euboean

Fabric_description

Soft ruddled yellow clay (covered with miltos).

Munsell_color

7.5YR 7/6

Decoration

The rim is painted black. On receptacle laurel spray / leftward chevrons, beneath it broad streaky black band not reaching as far as foot and running up into laurel fringe where the brush in taken off. Ring foot and underside reserved. Edge of lid decorated with evenly spaced black dots. It is framed with 2 black bands. The zone towards the knob is decorated with eggs. Black band defines the zone and the transition to the knob, whose neck is reserved. The upper surface of the knob is black.

Inscriptions

Condition

Complete and intact. Small chips on rim and the edge of the lid. Decoration faded in places on both lid and body. Scratches on body and white deposits.

Technique/Style

Geometricising

Provenance

Possibly from Chalcis

Period

Archaic

Date

6th century

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2002.97.0640.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of a Euboean geometricising globular pyxis with a lid, showing designs on lid and body.
2002.97.0641.jpg	Top view of a Euboean geometricising globular pyxis, showing interior.
2002.97.0642.jpg	Oblique view, from slightly above, of a Euboean pyxis lid, showing egg and dot decoration.
2004.05.0001.jpg	Side view of a Euboean geometricising globular pyxis with a lid, showing laurel spray / leftward chevron decoration.
2004.05.0002.jpg	Side view of a Euboean geometricising globular pyxis with a lid, showing laurel spray / leftward chevron decoration.
2004.05.0003.jpg	Oblique view, from above, of a Euboean geometricising globular pyxis with a lid, showing egg-and-bar decoration on lid.
2005.88.0077.jpg
2008.10.0036.jpg	Profile view of a Euboean globular lidded pyxis.