Inventory Number: | BI 511 | |
Section Number: | ΕΕ 238 | |
Title: | Carved Ivory Pyxis | |
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ: | Ελεφαντοστέινη πυξίδα με πώμα και ανάγλυφη παράσταση γρυπών που επιτίθενται σε ελάφια. Tέλος 15ου αι. π.Χ. | |
Category: | Bone & Ivory | |
Description: | Broken and split into many pieces, but largely complete; one side slightly higher than the other. A cylindrical box, tapering very slightly toward the top. The flat lid is held in place by a projecting central disk which fits down inside the wall. The bottom is made in two superimposed parts, one providing the actual floor of the box, the other, fastened to the first by ivory pegs, is a separate piece which provides a base for the whole. Traces of a metal lining, analyzed as tin, were found inside the box. The carved decoration, in fairly high relief, shows, on the lid, a griffin, crested, right, tearing two small deer. On the wall two similar griffins are represented at a larger scale, one right, the other left; they also are attacking deer both large and small. Considerably indications of a landscape backround. Close under the rim, two (?) horizontal lug-like handles, long, and slightly projecting, formed by the bodies of crouching animals; one of these fairly complete, the other fragmentary. Probably two pairs each formed by a lion and a deer. Pierced vertically. Border decoration at top and bottom, two zones of incised S-curved lines. | |
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ: | Ελεφαντοστέινη πυξίδα με κάλυμμα. Διακρίνεται εγχάρακτη διακόσμηση από γριφώνες. | |
Conservation Status: | Finished | |
Context: | Mycenaean chamber tomb; Ledge at east end. | |
Handling: | Stoa Gallery Case | |
Notebook Page: | 427 | |
Negatives: | Leica, color slide, IX-88, IX-89, IX-90, XVIII-48, XVIII-49, XVIII-50, XVIII-51, XVIII-52, XVIII-53, XVIII-54, XVIII-55, XX-11, XX-12, XX-13, XX-14, XX-15, XX-38, 81-97, 81-317 | |
PD Number: | Ptg. 195, 204, 294 | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.16, (lid) 0.013; Diam. (lid) 0.11 | |
Material: | Ivory | |
Date: | 26 May 1939 | |
Section: | ΕΕ | |
Deposit: | N 21-22:1 | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), pp. 106-107, fig. 60. | |
Langenbucher (2007), p. 88, figs. 91A, B, C. | ||
AgoraPicBk 2 (1992), no. 2. | ||
Guide (1990), p. 224, fig. 138. | ||
Camp (1986), p. 68. | ||
AgoraPicBk 22 (1985), fig. 41. | ||
Guide (1976), p. 223, fig. 115. | ||
Vermeule (1972), pp. 219-220, 343, n. 17. | ||
Travlos (1971), fig. 10. | ||
Guide (1962), p. 146, pl. XI. | ||
Archaeology 13 (1960), p. 15, fig. 3. | ||
Webster (1958), pp. 28, 40. | ||
AA 55 (1940), pp. 161-162, figs. 28-29. | ||
Hesperia 9 (1940), pp. 283-287, figs. 27-29. | ||
AJA 43 (1939), pp. 582-583, 585, figs. 12-14. | ||
BCH 63 (1939), p. 292, fig. 6, pl. LV. | ||
Agora XIII, p. 166, pl. 32, no. I 16. | ||
Agora XIV, p. 7, pl. 18. | ||
References: | Publications (6) Publication Pages (5) Drawing: DA 10540 Drawing: DA 13009 Drawing: DA 13033 Images (77) Deposit: N 21-22:1 Card: BI 511 Card: BI 511 Card: BI 511 |