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| Inventory Number: | P 32892 | |
| Section Number: | ΜΣ 1543 | |
| Conservation Number: | 2232 | |
| Title: | Pyxis | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Description: | Mended from many fragments preserving almost complete vessel, with single small lid fragment. Well preserved paint fired reddish brown. "Flat pyxis" of MG I type, with "vigorously curved profile". Inset rim, with corresponding pairs of suspension holes. Top of rim painted solid. Interior and underside of foot reserved. Exterior decoration: broad band above base, above which body divided into two sets of horizontal bands (seven below, five on top), with double zigzag pattern between at shoulder level. Lid fragment decorated with reserved bands, with reserved underside. Pinkish buff clay with large inclusions. Middle Geometric I. See Kerameikos V.I, no. 262 (= Coldstream (1968), pl. 3f); and generally Coldstream, p. 17. Ca. 800 B.C. ADDENDA: One joining body fragment added from Lot ΜΣ 508, not mended (Dec. 2020). ADDENDA:This fragment now is recorded as P 38588, because according to Bartek Lis they do not belong together (March 2022). | |
| Conservation Status: | Finished | |
| Context: | Well. Middle stoa, under north aisle. "Upper trench". Basket 118N. | |
| Notebook Page: | 3165, 3681 ff. | |
| Negatives: | 99-3-12, 99-3-13 | |
| Dimensions: | Diam. a) (outer rim) 0.117, (foot) 0.102; H. a) 0.068; Max. Dim. b) 0.05 | |
| Material: | Ceramic | |
| Date: | 9 July 1997 | |
| Section: | ΜΣ | |
| Deposit: | J 13:1 | |
| Basket: | 118 | |
| Period: | Geometric | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 68 (1999), p. 262, no. 7, fig. 10. | |
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 68 (1999) Images (10) Deposit: J 13:1 Card: P 32892 |
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