pyxis with lid / Ceramic / Glaze / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2569b
Object Name: pyxis with lid
Lot: Marburg Collection
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic; Glaze; Slip
Length: ;
Width: 11.516.2;
Height: 11.5;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;Base and lid: 385g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Mended: few small pieces modern. Two pairs of holes on lid correspond to two pairs on horizontal rim of box. Buff clay and slip with brown-black glaze. Lid: concentric circles of varying widths with radiating strokes at edge. Box. two stripes, band of dots joined by tangents, two stripes, band of eighteen panels separated by groups of three lines, each containing one of five different designs: varying sequence, three stripes, a band of dots and two stripes. On the bottom a rosette of four hatched leaves surrounded by three concentric circles with swastikas as filling ornaments.
Subjects: Geometric decoration
Verbatim Date: 750-700 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Greece
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Case 07 - Greek World
Exhibition Curator: Talalay, Lauren; Herbert, Sharon C.
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Publication Author: Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 1933
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2569b
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2569b/0000_00_2569bp02.tif

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Full citation: "pyxis with lid; Ceramic; Glaze; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2569b/0000_00_2569bp02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.