Agora Object: P 326
Inventory Number:   P 326
Section Number:   ΣΤ 300
Title:   Pyxis
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many fragments; some still missing, including one lug. Flaring ring base; squat incurving body with greatest diameter a little above center; further incurving rim with slightly concave outline; set at top of body, flat-topped lugs (two originally, one preserved) perforated from above, the clay left rough as pushed out around the hole below. Delicate ware, thin-walled.
Lowest 0.05m. (base and body) glazed solid and bordered by two narrow glaze sripes. Above this, rest of body decorated by a band of geometric motifs arranged symmetrically in panels: center of each side broad checkerboard panel, followed successively to handle by single zigzag, crosshatching in zigzags, single zigzag; under each handle, two low panels, a broad crosshatched and a narrow checkered one. Panels separated by single vertical stripes. Rim glazed, with two reserved stripes. Lug cross-striped. Part of the lid preserved. It came down over the rim, resting its downturned edge against the slight angle between rim and body. It had lugs to match those of the pot; the one preserved appears to be only semi-pierced. The part of the lid preserved was glazed on top save very edge and stripes on lug; much peeled.
Clay pinkish; buff on surface where unglazed. Glaze fired fairly dark, with one red patch; much peeled.
This pot was found in the mouth of P 325.
ADDENDA Lid broken into pieces [8 July 1953].
Context:   Burial #1. Found in the mouth of P 325.
Negatives:   Leica, 82-385, 2-131, 2-141, LVII-10, color slide
PD Number:   Ptg. 60, PD 2774-55
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.012, (rim) 0.064, (base) 0.055; H. 0.113; Th. 0.003; W. (of lug) 0.021
Date:   8 March 1932
Section:   ΣΤ
Grid:   ΣΤ:7/Γ
Elevation:   63.35m.
Masl:   63.35m.
Deposit:   F 16:3
Period:   Protogeometric
Bibliography:   Desborough (1952), pp. 108, 278.
    Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 469.
    AA 47 (1932), p. 117.
    AJA 36 (1932), p. 387, fig. 5A.
    Agora XXXVI, no. T6-2, pp. 60-62, fig. 2.16, pl. IV.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVI
Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933)
Drawing: DA 6785
Images (5)
Deposit: F 16:3
Card: P 326
Card: P 326