Inventory Number: | P 14817 | |
Section Number: | ΕΕ 83 | |
Title: | Pyxis with Lid | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Pyxis mended from many pieces; about two-thirds of rim and wall, and part of the floor, missing; two non-joining fragments of the lid remain. Low round-bodied pyxis on low ring foot; flange for lid inset below top of wall; flat lid. On the bottom of the bowl a swastika, the outer arms curved; rosettes in the spaces between the arms, and narrow glazed bands around. On the wall, three zones of decoration separated by bands; from bottom: tooth pattern, broad band of simple hatched maeander, broken into panels set off by groups of verticals; the one panel preserved contains a hatched swastika and a vertical band of chrevrons. Flange glazed, with a reserved line. Interior glazed save for a reserved circle at the center of the floor, decorated with glazed bands around a cross, the spaces between its arms filled by diminishing V's. On the lid, short diagonals around the edge; then, separated by groups of bands, a ring of dots, a zone of zigzags, another ring of dots, and another zigzag. Underside unglazed. Pinkish clay, firm black to brown glaze. | |
Context: | Geometric grave. | |
Notebook Page: | 233 | |
Negatives: | Leica, XVIII-90, 81-276 | |
PD Number: | PD 2774-167 | |
Dimensions: | H. (bowl) 0.084; Est. Diam. (lid) 0.21 | |
Date: | 22 April 1939 | |
Section: | ΕΕ | |
Grid: | ΕΕ:43-44/Θ-Ι | |
Deposit: | N 21:6 | |
Period: | Geometric | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 29 (1960), p. 412, no. 2, pls. 91, 92. | |
Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 291, fig. 34. | ||
Agora XXXVI, no. T24-2, pp. 233-235, fig. 2.144. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XXXVI Publication: Hesperia 9 (1940) Publication: Hesperia 29 (1960) Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 133, p. 119 Image: 2012.51.0318 (XVIII-90) Deposit: N 21:6 Card: P 14817 Card: P 14817 |