Agora Object: P 4602
Inventory Number:   P 4602
Section Number:   Β 1088
Title:   Pyxis with Lid
Category:   Pottery
Description:   a) The pyxis resembles a kalathos: flat bottom, concave sides; small ribbon handles at lip. Unglazed beneath. Inside, glazed and reserved bands alternating. Two broad red horizontal bands on outside; other decoration in dull brown black. The clay orange buff, micaceous.
b) Shallow conical lid with high knob, thicker at the top. Underside unglazed. Decoration: a procession of water birds; in brown-black and red: red for a band around the knob, and one at its base; a red band between two black ones around the outer edge. Red over black on the birds' wings. Clay as a).
"Bird Group" (Vlastos).
Late Phaleron Ware.
Notes:   (R.S.J. Grave II)
Context:   Grave 1.
Negatives:   Leica, 5-86
PD Number:   Ptg. 38
Dimensions:   Diam. a) (top) 0.072, b) 0.076; H. a) 0.052, b) (w/knob) 0.039
Date:   5 February 1935
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:38/Ι
Deposit:   G 12:1
Lot:   Lot Β 370
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Roberts (1978), pp. 9-10, 15, no. 1.
    Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. II 3, p. 23, fig. 9.
    Agora XXIII, no. 1279.
References:   Publication: Agora XXIII
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939)
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 272, p. 256
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 357, p. 341
Drawing: DA 10596
Image: 2012.23.0245 (5-86)
Deposit: G 12:1
Lot: Β 370
Notebook: Β-7
Notebook Page: Β-7-33 (pp. 1239-1240)
Card: P 4602