Agora Object: P 19240
Inventory Number:   P 19240
Section Number:   ΟΟ 606
Title:   Pyxis with Lid
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Many fragments from rim, neck and body, some burned and others not; but most of the body and all of the bottom missing. Restored in plaster. Deep rounded body with short neck and flat-topped rim, slightly projecting. Two pairs (one preserved) of tie holes for lid through rim. The outside glazed, except for a wide reserved zone at level of greatest diameter. Reserved zone bordered above and below by triple lines, and divided by triple lines into narrow bands filled by zigzag above and below, and a wider zone in the middle, decorated with a band of key pattern filled sometimes with vertical, sometimes with horizontal chevrons, and sometimes with double horizontal zigzags. The top of the rim unglazed, except at outer edge. Low conical lid to fit: more than half missing. Plain edge; two pairs of string holes restored. The handle was a plastic animal (horse) now broken off: the attachments are preserved for tail, both hind feet and left front foot. The lid glazed outside, with a restored zone half way to the handle, decorated with a lozenge chain (interlacing zigzags) between triple bands to each side.
Buff clay and thick solid black glaze, rather shiny and much peeled where burned.
Context:   Geometric Grave; funeral pyre.
Notebook Page:   1633
Negatives:   Leica, XXXIV-10, XXXIV-94, 84-380
PD Number:   PD 2774-40
Dimensions:   Rest. H. 0.145; P.H. (lid) 0.019; Rest. H. (pyxis) 0.126; Diam. (pyxis) 0.143, (lid) 0.091
Date:   8-10, 12 April 1948
Section:   ΟΟ
Grid:   ΟΟ:58/Ε
Deposit:   D 16:2
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Coldstream (1968), pl. 1:g.
    Hesperia 37 (1968), p. 91, noted under no. 14; p. 95, noted under no. 23.
    Desborough (1952), pp. 54, 108.
    Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 284, noted.
    Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 290, no. 3, pl. 67:3, fig. 3.
    Agora XXXVI, no. T11-3, p. 86, fig. 2.38.
References:   Publications (4)
Report: 1948 ΟΟ
Report Page: 1948 ΟΟ, s. 20
Drawing: PD 2394-1 (DA 5003)
Drawing: PD 2394-1; PD 2394-2; PD 2394-6; PD 2394-7; PD 2394-8; PD 2394-9 (DA 5036)
Image: 2012.57.0313 (84-380)
Image: 2012.52.0419 (XXXIV-10)
Image: 2012.52.0504 (XXXIV-94)
Deposit: D 16:2
Notebook: ΟΟ-8
Notebook: ΟΟ-9
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-8-45 (pp. 1480-1481)
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-9-94 (pp. 1778-1779)
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-9-95 (pp. 1780-1781)
Card: P 19240
Card: P 19240