Inventory Number: | P 5066 | |
Section Number: | Β 1350 | |
Title: | Pyxis with Lid | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | The lid mended from four pieces; the body from many; chips missing. The flat knob handle an after thought(?). a) Pyxis. flat-bottomed pyxis with convex side wall and lip flanged inside. Flange and lip pierced for tying. Around bottom: four bands, rays, two bands, linked dotted circles, two bands. Wide zone with hatched maeander running right interrupted in three places by 1) parallel chevrons between vertical bands; hatched four-petalled flower with reserved circular center in panel; horizontal and vertical zigzag separated by vertical bands; panel divided horizontally, water birds above left, below, dot rosette. 2) the same, but deer substituted for water birds. 3) the same without subsidiary animal panel. Bottom: at center, cross with concentric Λ in its arms; zone of concentric lozenge-shaped petals with swastikas between their ends, between bands, the outermost fringed. b) Lid: shallow convex lid with flat knob-handle and attachments for two horses which were not found in the grave. Around outer edge: fringe, three bands, linked dotted circles, three bands, cross-hatched zone, three bands, zigzag band, three bands. Center glazed solid. Buff slip; dull black glaze badly peeled. This is the only pot from the grave which appears not to have been new at the time of the funeral. | |
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ: | Ευμεγέθης Γεωμετρική πυξίδα με κάλυμμα. Στο σώμα διακρίνεται ταινία με γεωμετρικά κοσμήματα, μαιάνδρους και επάλληλες ταινίες. | |
Context: | Grave 16. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 5-113, 5-289, 5-290, 82-81, 82-84, color slide | |
PD Number: | Ptg. 80, Ptg. 267 | |
Dimensions: | Diam. (body) 0.317, (lid) 0.281; H. 0.155 | |
Date: | 19 March 1935 | |
Section: | Β | |
Grid: | Β:32/ΙΒ-ΙΓ | |
Deposit: | G 12:17 | |
Period: | Geometric | |
Bibliography: | Travlos (1971), fig. 15. | |
Coldstream (1968), pl. 9k-l. | ||
AJA 44 (1940), p. 474, noted. | ||
Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. XVII 16, p. 80, fig. 54. | ||
Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 31, fig. 30. | ||
Agora VIII, no. 267. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora VIII Publication: Hesperia 5 (1936) Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939) Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 75, p. 61 Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 130, p. 116 Drawing: DA 10606 Drawing: DA 10697 Images (6) Deposit: G 12:17 Notebook: Β-8 Notebook Page: Β-8-96 (pp. 1570-1571) Card: P 5066 Card: P 5066 |