Lidded pyxis

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1961 ΝΑΚ 297

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Geometric Period

Date

800-760 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.182 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 67

Description
Bibliography

Intact pyxis found in 1961 during the excavation of the Angelopoulos plot. It comes from Burial 3 and was deposited as a burial offering together with eight more intact pots and other vessels’ fragments.

Its base is flat and the body has rounded walls. The lid is also flat with a low knob. The pot’s surface is fully covered in zones containing various geometric motifs (bands, meander, swastikas, triangles, rhomboids) in brown-black colour.

Δοντάς, Γ., «Ανασκαφή Οικοπέδου Αγγελοπούλου», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 17, Μέρος Α' - Μελέται, 1961/62, σελ. 91, πίν. 34α, αρ. κατ. ε
Coldstream, J.N., Greek Geometric Pottery. A Survey of Ten Styles and their Chronology. Updated second edition, United Kingdom, 2008, σελ. 22
Papadopoulos, J., Smithson, E., The early iron age. The cemeteries, The Athenian Agora XXXVI, 2017, σελ. 773 υποσημ. 472