Agora Object: P 455
Inventory Number:   P 455
Section Number:   ΣΤ 421
Title:   Pyxis Fragment: Corinthian
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Fragment from rim and wall.
Pattern in narrow stripes of brown glaze, the shoulder frieze including an hourglass motif in solid color. Lattice triangle and butterfly ornament. Inside covered with red glaze which has soaked somewhat into the porous buff clay.
Corinthian Late Geometric Pyxis.
Example of the importation of Geometric ware from one place to another.
Context:   Between drain 2 and conglomerate wall.
Negatives:   Leica, 3-22, 81-574
PD Number:   PD 383
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.052; P.Th. 0.004; P.W. 0.059
Date:   31 March 1932
Section:   ΣΤ
Grid:   ΣΤ:40-43/ΚΒ
Elevation:   67.0m.
Masl:   67m.
Deposit:   H 17:4
    H 17:7
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 563, no. 80.
    Agora VIII, no. 637.
References:   Publication: Agora VIII
Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933)
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 118, p. 104
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 128, p. 114
Drawing: PD 383 (DA 5093)
Image: 2012.55.1385 (81-574)
Deposit: H 17:4
Deposit: H 17:7
Card: P 455