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Accession_Number REDMG:1951.145
Shape Pyxis lid
Shape_description Cylindrical lid with inset flat top and raised edge, stepping down in three ridges, broader than the width of the walls; slightly tapering walls terminating in offset flanged rim.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 7/4
Decoration Large black dot in centre of inset top, surrounded by concentric bands/lines: one black band, one black line, one red band, one black line; frieze of alternating/interlocking 'L' shapes; two black lines and then the red flange. Walls decorated with red band between two pairs of black bands, with intervening black lines. Red rim. Interior reserved, except for (accidental) red smear just beyond rim.
Inscriptions
Condition Decoration eroded on one side, and slightly on the top.
Technique/Style
Provenance
Period Late Corinthian III
Date 5 c.
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2003.93.0072.jpg		Side view of an inverted Late Corinthian pyxis lid.

2003.97.0102.jpg		Side view of an inverted Late Corinthian pyxis lid.

2003.97.0103.jpg		Side view of an inverted Late Corinthian pyxis lid.

2003.97.0104.jpg		Bottom view of a Late Corinthian pyxis lid, showing the interior.

2003.97.0105.jpg		Top view of a Late Corinthian pyxis lid, showing the top.

2004.99.0361.jpg		Top view of a Late Corinthian pyxis lid, showing the top pattern.

2004.99.0373.jpg		Front view of a Late Corinthian pyxis lid, showing the exterior pattern.

2004.99.0374.jpg		Oblique view of a Late Corinthian pyxis lid, showing the top and exterior pattern.
Comparanda Corinth 13, 293-1, 534-5.
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Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height 3.5
Diameters Top 4.9, rim 5.0
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location Timeline 3 top
Edited_by Denise; Amy; Kinsey
Date_edited 15.07.2002; 10.07.2004; 17.01.2006
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