Agora Object: P 5066
Inventory Number:   P 5066
Section Number:   Β 1350
Title:   Pyxis with Lid
Category:   Pottery
Description:   The lid mended from four pieces; the body from many; chips missing. The flat knob handle an after thought(?).
a) Pyxis. flat-bottomed pyxis with convex side wall and lip flanged inside. Flange and lip pierced for tying. Around bottom: four bands, rays, two bands, linked dotted circles, two bands. Wide zone with hatched maeander running right interrupted in three places by 1) parallel chevrons between vertical bands; hatched four-petalled flower with reserved circular center in panel; horizontal and vertical zigzag separated by vertical bands; panel divided horizontally, water birds above left, below, dot rosette. 2) the same, but deer substituted for water birds. 3) the same without subsidiary animal panel.
Bottom: at center, cross with concentric Λ in its arms; zone of concentric lozenge-shaped petals with swastikas between their ends, between bands, the outermost fringed.
b) Lid: shallow convex lid with flat knob-handle and attachments for two horses which were not found in the grave. Around outer edge: fringe, three bands, linked dotted circles, three bands, cross-hatched zone, three bands, zigzag band, three bands. Center glazed solid.
Buff slip; dull black glaze badly peeled. This is the only pot from the grave which appears not to have been new at the time of the funeral.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Ευμεγέθης Γεωμετρική πυξίδα με κάλυμμα. Στο σώμα διακρίνεται ταινία με γεωμετρικά κοσμήματα, μαιάνδρους και επάλληλες ταινίες.
Context:   Grave 16.
Negatives:   Leica, 5-113, 5-289, 5-290, 82-81, 82-84, color slide
PD Number:   Ptg. 80, Ptg. 267
Dimensions:   Diam. (body) 0.317, (lid) 0.281; H. 0.155
Date:   19 March 1935
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:32/ΙΒ-ΙΓ
Deposit:   G 12:17
Period:   Geometric
Bibliography:   Travlos (1971), fig. 15.
    Coldstream (1968), pl. 9k-l.
    AJA 44 (1940), p. 474, noted.
    Hesperia Suppl. 2 (1939), no. XVII 16, p. 80, fig. 54.
    Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 31, fig. 30.
    Agora VIII, no. 267.
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
Drawing: DA 10606
Drawing: DA 10697
Images (6)
Deposit: G 12:17
Notebook: Β-8
Notebook Page: Β-8-96 (pp. 1570-1571)
Card: P 5066
Card: P 5066