Inventory Number: | P 16591 | |
Section Number: | ΝΝ 1717 | |
Title: | Black Figure Pyxis with Lid | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Lid intact save for chip at edge. Straight wall and very slightly convex top, projecting a little beyond the wall and grooved near the edge. On top, a bird with spread wings, no incision; black glaze on edge, with a narrow purple band just inside. On side, wide black and narrow purple band inside it, along top and bottom; between these, key pattern, with rectangles between its bands. Inside plain. The lid when found (upside down) was full of a chalky substance. Pyxis mended from many pieces; fragments of body, rim and floor missing. Straight wall and flat floor projecting slightly beyond bottom of wall to receive lid. On projecting edge of floor, purple; wide glaze band just below lip inside and out; glaze ring around center of floor. Pinkish-buff Attic clay; black glaze in places highly metallic. | |
Conservation Status: | Finished | |
Context: | Grave XXVI = Grave 12. | |
Notebook Page: | 2528, 2642 | |
Negatives: | Leica, XXV-64 | |
Dimensions: | H. (pyxis) 0.038; H. (w/lid) 0.047; Diam. (lid) 0.084 | |
Date: | 25 April 1940 | |
Section: | ΝΝ | |
Grid: | ΝΝ:119-120/Ι | |
Deposit: | B 21:14 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 20 (1951), pl. 42 a-5 (Grave 12) and pl. 42 b. | |
Hesperia 10 (1941), p. 2, fig. 1. | ||
Agora XII, p. 175. | ||
Agora XXIII, no. 1288. | ||
References: | Publications (4) Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 39, p. 412 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 272, p. 256 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 363, p. 347 Images (14) Deposit: B 21:14 Notebook: ΝΝ-13 Notebook: ΝΝ-14 Notebook Page: ΝΝ-13-69 (pp. 2528-2529) Notebook Page: ΝΝ-14-25 (pp. 2641-2642) Card: P 16591 Card: P 16591 |