Agora Object: P 5064
Inventory Number:   P 5064
Section Number:   Β 1348
Title:   Pyxis with Lid
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Πυξίδα με πώμα
Category:   Pottery
Description:   The lid intact except for chips; the body mended from many pieces; a few bits missing.
a) Pyxis: Deep convex-sided pyxis with ring foot; inner lip flanged; flange and lip pierced for tying. Wide band around bottom, three narrow bands, band of rays, three narrow bands, row of dots, three narrow bands. Wide zone: panels, each containing two secrions of hatched maeander running left, sometimes truncated; each panel separated by two narrow vertical bands filled by parallel horizontal zigzag, with three vertical bands between, three to each side. Above, horizontal zigzag between three narrow bands above and below. Bottom undecorated.
b) Lid. Flat lid with tall spiked knob handle. Around edge: three bands; rays; three bands; interlocked vertical strokes, alternating hanging and standing; three bands; wide band; two bands; wide band around base of handle. Stem of handle ribbed and glazed solid; on knobbed spike, bands; outer face of knob, two parallel zigzags.
Buff slip; dull black to brownish glaze.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Γεωμετρική πυξίδα με κάλυμμα και υψηλή λαβή, που καταλήγει σε κωνικό κομβίο. Στο σώμα φέρει πεδίο με κόσμημα μαιάνδρου, επάλληλες ταινίες και ακτινωτή διακόσμηση. Στο κάλυμμα διακρίνεται διακόσμηση από ομόκεντρους κύκλους και μελανές στιγμές.
Context:   Grave 16.
Negatives:   Leica, 5-113, 82-81, color slide
Dimensions:   Diam. (body) 0.248, (lid) 0.197; H. 0.235, (w/o handle) 0.125
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 13, p. 80, fig. 54.
    Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 31, fig. 30.
    Agora VIII, no. 266.
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 (40)
Deposit: G 12:17
Notebook: Β-8
Notebook Page: Β-8-95 (pp. 1568-1569)
Card: P 5064
Card: P 5064