Pyxis

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1961 ΝΑΚ 299

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Geometric Period

Date

800-760 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.16 m
Rim diameter: 0.057 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 66

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 bottom is pointed and the shoulder rounded. The holes opened in the edge of the rim helped the pot’s suspension with a rope or cord. The decorative zones around the body consist of meander, chess motif, wavy and horizontal lines.

Δοντάς, Γ., «Ανασκαφή Οικοπέδου Αγγελοπούλου», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 17, Μέρος Α' - Μελέται, 1961/62, σελ. 90, πίν. 34β, αρ. κατ. γ
Μπρούσκαρη, Μ., Μουσείον Ακροπόλεως. Περιγραφικός κατάλογος, Αθήνα, 1974, σελ. 89, εικ. 169
Boardman, J., Πρώιμη ελληνική αγγειογραφία, Αθήνα, 2002, σελ. 41, εικ. 36
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. 780 υποσημ. 496, 781 υποσημ. 504