Agora Object: P 23994
Inventory Number:   P 23994
Section Number:   Τ 2971
Title:   Red Figure Pyxis Lid: Type B
Category:   Pottery
Description:   About half of top and part of side preserved. Rounded rim, set off by groove, projecting; top nearly flat. Around wall, Σ-pattern between bands. The top is apparently covered by a large female head, wearing a kerchief; part of the back of the head and the neck preserved.
Glaze inside good black; outside, dull and much peeled. Considerable remains of red wash.
Two other similar lids are P 18344 and P 18896 (Hesperia 20 (1951), pl. 72:7,2), but these with heads at somewhat smaller scale, within a frame of chevrons.
ADDENDA Broken in two pieces [May 1970].
Context:   Well to north of Nymphaeum, Box 134.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   H. 0.057
Date:   28 April 1954
Section:   Τ
Grid:   Τ:115/ΙΣΤ
Elevation:   -11.5--11.5m.
Masl:   -11.5m.
Deposit:   Q 15:2
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Agora XXX, no. 1031.
References:   Publication: Agora XXX
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 295, p. 276
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 399, p. 380
Object: Agora XXX, no. 1031
Deposit: Q 15:2
Card: P 23994
Card: P 23994