Agora Object: P 5054
Inventory Number:   P 5054
Section Number:   Β 1338
Title:   Pyxis with Lid
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Πυξίδα με πώμα
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Lid and body intact.
a) Pyxis: Shallow base; convex body with lip flanged inside to receive lid; flange and lid pierced for tying. Around the bottom, wide band of glaze; on body, between three narrow bands above and three below, plain maeander with vertical rows of dots, sometimes single, sometimes double, running into bays of maeander.
b) Lid: Flat lid with spiked knob handle. Around outer edge: two narrow bands, wide band, narrow band, wide band to base of handle. On handle: narrow bands, upper face of knob glazed.
Slipped; somewhat streaky dull black glaze; brownish where thin.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Γεωμετρική πυξίδα με κάλυμμα και υψηλή λαβή, που καταλήγει σε κωνικό κομβίο. Στο σώμα φέρει ταινία με κόσμημα μαιάνδρου και μελανές στιγμές.
Context:   Grave 16.
Negatives:   Leica, 5-113, 82-80, color slide
PD Number:   Ptg. 6
Dimensions:   Diam. (body) 0.138, (lid) 0.115; H. (w/lid) 0.11, (body) 0.066
Date:   19 March 1935
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:32/ΙΒ-ΙΓ
Deposit:   G 12:17
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Travlos (1971), fig. 15.
    AJA 44 (1940), p. 474, noted.
    Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. XVII 12, p. 80, fig. 54.
    Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 31, fig. 30.
    Agora VIII, no. 256.
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 10586
Images (43)
Deposit: G 12:17
Notebook: Β-8
Notebook Page: Β-8-90 (pp. 1558-1559)
Card: P 5054
Card: P 5054