Agora Object: P 5057
Inventory Number:   P 5057
Section Number:   Β 1341
Title:   Pyxis
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Intact. No lid was found.
Low base; convex side wall with flanged lip inside to receive lid; lip pierced for tying on lid. Outside: wide band around bottom, then row of small dots. Between three narrow bands above and three below, row of large linked dots. Upper face of flange glazed. On bottom: three narrow bands around outer edge. Row of dots; two narrow bands around a many-armed cross (or many spoked wheel) at center.
Slipped; thin black glaze, somewhat peeled.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Μικρή Γεωμετρική πυξίδα, χωρίς κάλυμμα. Στο σώμα, ανάμεσα σε τρεις επάλληλες ταινίες, διακρίνεται διακόσμηση από συνεχόμενες μελανές στιγμές.
Context:   Grave 16.
Negatives:   Leica, 5-113, 82-81, 82-83, color slide
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.092; H. 0.03
Date:   19 March 1935
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:32/ΙΒ-ΙΓ
Deposit:   G 12:17
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Travlos (1971), fig. 15.
    AJA 44 (1940), p. 474, noted.
    Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. XVII 9, p. 80, fig. 54.
    Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 31, fig. 30.
    Agora VIII, no. 268.
References:   Publication: Agora VIII
Publication: Hesperia 5 (1936)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939)
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 75, p. 61
Publication Page: Agora 8, s. 130, p. 116
Images (4)
Deposit: G 12:17
Notebook: Β-8
Notebook Page: Β-8-91 (pp. 1560-1561)
Card: P 5057