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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1956 ΝΑΚ 226

Category

Domestic equipment

Period

Hellenistic Period

Date

175-125 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.058 m
Rim diameter: 0.218 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 3, No 78

Description
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Found in fragments in 1956 in a well on the south slope of the Acropolis and restored. It is low and ring-shaped and its floor is flat with two round, symmetrically opened holes. Both the projecting, thickened foot and rim flare.

The exact use of objects in this form remains unclear. They have been interpreted as pyxides, figurine stands, incense burners (thymiateria) covers or, most possibly, vessel stands.

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