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Agora Object: P 16591

Inventory Number:		P 16591
Section Number:		ΝΝ 1717
Title:		Black Figure Pyxis with Lid
Category:		Pottery
Description:		Lid intact save for chip at edge. Straight wall and very slightly convex top, projecting a little beyond the wall and grooved near the edge. On top, a bird with spread wings, no incision; black glaze on edge, with a narrow purple band just inside. On side, wide black and narrow purple band inside it, along top and bottom; between these, key pattern, with rectangles between its bands. Inside plain. The lid when found (upside down) was full of a chalky substance. Pyxis mended from many pieces; fragments of body, rim and floor missing. Straight wall and flat floor projecting slightly beyond bottom of wall to receive lid. On projecting edge of floor, purple; wide glaze band just below lip inside and out; glaze ring around center of floor. Pinkish-buff Attic clay; black glaze in places highly metallic.
Conservation Status:		Finished
Context:		Grave XXVI = Grave 12.
Notebook Page:		2528, 2642
Negatives:		Leica, XXV-64
Dimensions:		H. (pyxis) 0.038; H. (w/lid) 0.047; Diam. (lid) 0.084
Date:		25 April 1940
Section:		ΝΝ
Grid:		ΝΝ:119-120/Ι
Deposit:		B 21:14
Period:		Greek
Bibliography:		Hesperia 20 (1951), pl. 42 a-5 (Grave 12) and pl. 42 b.
		Hesperia 10 (1941), p. 2, fig. 1.
		Agora XII, p. 175.
		Agora XXIII, no. 1288.
References:		Publications (4) Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 39, p. 412 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 272, p. 256 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 363, p. 347 Images (14) Deposit: B 21:14 Notebook: ΝΝ-13 Notebook: ΝΝ-14 Notebook Page: ΝΝ-13-69 (pp. 2528-2529) Notebook Page: ΝΝ-14-25 (pp. 2641-2642) Card: P 16591 Card: P 16591