| Accession_Number | 26.4.1A-B | ||||
| Shape | Pyxis with lid | ||||
| Shape_description | Lid: central 'pagoda-like' knob. Pyxis: feet are grooved horizontally; raised base is slightly convex. | ||||
| Material | Terracotta | ||||
| Fabric | Boeotian | ||||
| Fabric_description | |||||
| Munsell_color | 5YR 7/8 | ||||
| Decoration | Lid are palmettes and tendrils, three ridges painted black and bars to edge which is slightly raised. Underside is black around edge and reserved in the centre. Body is black inside and on outer rim. Design on sides comprised of alternating palmettes and lotuses (three of each) joined by tendrils. Below is a broad black band, ridge with red either sid eand rays. Inset tripod foot which is black at top and red on outside but black inside feet. Base ruddled | ||||
| Inscriptions | |||||
| Condition | Much repair to lid which was in fragments but now almost complete apart from small piece of rim from underside. Paint dull on lid but remains clear on bottom piece. Two feet have been repaired and repainted and small part of lower rim is missing. | ||||
| Technique/Style | Floral ware | ||||
| Provenance | |||||
| Period | Late Classical | ||||
| Date | 425-400 | ||||
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| Artist | Branteghem Workshop | ||||
| Attribution | |||||
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| Comparanda | |||||
| Bibliography | CVA Reading 1, pl. 18.1; BSA 51 (1940-45) pl. 6.1; J. Boardman, Greek Art, fig.185. | ||||
| Archive_Ref | reference 1 reference 2 | ||||
| Beazley_DB | |||||
| Height | 21.2 | ||||
| Diameters | 14.1 | ||||
| Handle_height | 5.8 | ||||
| Other_dims. | Height of bottom 13.1 | ||||
| Location | Shape | ||||
| Edited_by | Denise; Joana Varela | ||||
| Date_edited | 17.09.2002; 24.04.2017 |
