Agora Object: P 4658
Inventory Number:   P 4658
Section Number:   Β 1133
Title:   Pyxis Lid Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Part of a frieze with chariot procession. To left, two horses (heads and necks preserved) drawing a chariot toward the right; a warrior with a square shield which has a flower emblem faces them, pulling them along by subsidiary reins; they are also attached by reins to the chariot they draw. To the right, the top of a chariot with a draped figure standing in it, driving two horses similar to the first; their backs and part of their manes preserved. Incised: the manes of the horses, the warrior's shield, rail of chariot. Reserved: horses' faces, eye of warrior. In field, zigzags, hook-spirals and guilloche. Around the base of the knob, hooks with palmette tips. "Running dog" around base of knob.
Brownish buff clay; dull black glaze.
Notes:   to 56.40m.
Context:   Brown earth.
Negatives:   Leica, 81-534, 81-571, VI-41
Dimensions:   Max. Dim. 0.114; P.H. 0.037
Date:   18 February 1935
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:34-38/ΣΤ-Ε
Elevation:   56.40m.
Masl:   56.4m.
Deposit:   F-G 12:1
Lot:   Lot Β 274
    Lot Β 292
Period:   Protoattic
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. B 80, p. 136, fig. 99.
    Agora VIII, no. 440.
References:   Publication: Agora VIII
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939)
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 95, p. 81
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 129, p. 115
Image: 2012.50.0542 (VI-41)
Image: 2012.55.1345 (81-534)
Image: 2012.55.1382 (81-571)
Deposit: F-G 12:1
Lot: Β 274
Lot: Β 292
Notebook: Β-7
Notebook: Β-9
Notebook Page: Β-7-60 (pp. 1293-1294)
Notebook Page: Β-9-64 (pp. 1699-1700)
Card: P 4658
Card: P 4658