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Accession_Number REDMG:1964.1676
Shape Miniature pyxis
Shape_description Everted rim, slightly concave on the interior, concave walls broadening to a carination from which the sides taper sharply to a flat base.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Corinthian
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration Interior: single (red) band near top. Exterior: two bands; band of triangular elements (grape clusters?) alternately up and down; two bands. Reserved walls beneath carination and base.
Inscriptions
Condition Decoration worn; tan deposits on interior, especially in bottom of bowl.
Technique/Style Late Corinthian
Provenance
Period Archaic
Date 550-500
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2003.93.0058.jpg		Oblique view, from slightly above, of a Corinthian pyxis, upside down.

2003.97.0110.jpg		Back view of a Corinthian pyxis.

2003.97.0111.jpg		Front view of a Corinthian pyxis.

2003.97.0112.jpg		Top view of a Corinthian pyxis, showing interior.

2003.97.0113.jpg		Bottom view of a Corinthian pyxis, showing base

2004.99.0503.jpg

2004.99.0504.jpg		Oblique view of an upside down Corinthian pyxis, showing exterior decoration.

2004.99.0505.jpg		Front view of an upside down Corinthian pyxis, showing exterior decoration.

2004.99.0506.jpg		Front view of an upside down Corinthian pyxis, showing exterior decoration.

2004.99.0507.jpg		Front view of an upside down Corinthian pyxis, showing exterior decoration.

2004.99.0508.jpg		Front view of an upside down Corinthian pyxis, showing exterior decoration.
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Beazley_DB
Height 2.5
Diameters 3.5
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location 7.1.3
Edited_by Denise; Will; Julia; Jayne
Date_edited 15.07.2002; 9.7.2007; 18.05.2016; 03.08.2022
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