Agora Object: P 23532
Inventory Number:   P 23532
Section Number:   ΣΑ 1977
Title:   Pyxis
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Small wall fragments, much of bottom, part of rim and one handle restored in plaster. Slightly convex bottom; slightly concave walls meeting the shoulder at an angle; out-turned rim; three small horizontal handles on shoulder.
Pinkish clay. Light buff slip. Decoration in red-brown glaze: the rim glazed inside and out and the handles glazed. Around the upper part of the shoulder, a broad glazed band; bands at shoulder angle, and at angle of wall and bottom. Between bands, diagonal lines around shoulder and wall. Bottom undecorated so far as preserved, but center is missing.
Context:   Mycenaean Tomb to N.E. of Stoa Pier 19 (ΣΑ 1). Near N.E. corner of chamber ca. 0.30m. above floor.
Notebook Page:   2676
Negatives:   Leica, LXI-75a, 83-558
Dimensions:   H. 0.098; Diam. 0.147
Date:   8 July 1953
Section:   ΣΑ
Deposit:   Q 8:4
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Agora XIII, no. XXIV-20.
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication Pages (4)
Image: 2012.56.1280 (83-558)
Image: 2012.53.1270 (LXI-75a)
Deposit: Q 8:4
Card: P 23532
Card: P 23532