Agora Object: AP 3509
Inventory Number:   AP 3509
Title:   Pyxis Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Fragment of base and lower wall of a pyxis; broken on all sides.
Flat base, vertical wall.
Deep incisions carefully designed; pattern of concentric circles on the side; two horizontal lines at the edge of base; no traces of pigment.
Dark red brown micaceous clay, fired gray at core; dark brown slip, burnished.
Probably Cycladic.
Notes:   Inventoried February 2017 from Lot 281.
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.031; Max. Dim. (base) 0.048; Th. 0.006
Material:   Ceramic
Chronology:   Early Helladic
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 357, fig. 27 i.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933)
Image: 2015.04.0692
Card: AP 3509