Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 994 Chronology: | | Ca. 430-420 B.C. | Deposit: | | B 15:1 | Published Number: | | AV 30.994 | References: | | Object: P 10459
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Pyxis. Broken and mended with the missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably part of the wall and flange for lid. Circle on underside of floor. Glaze much pitted. P.H. 0.06; diam. ca. 0.065. P. E. Corbett, Hesperia 18, 1949, p. 318,
cat. no. 21, pl. 85; Roberts, Pyxis, p. 121, cat. no. 3, pl. 75:4, fig. 7:g.
Eros holding a chest, flying to right toward a woman who is running away, looking back (both twice). Each woman wears a chiton. One has a chest, and below it there is a wool basket. Below the figures, rays.
Compared with the Drouot Group (ARV2 one 760, ---; not in ARV2).
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