Terracotta pyxis (box)

Terracotta pyxis (box)

Description:

Small pyxis with black and red bands. This may be a Cypriot adaptation of a Protocorinthian type.


H. 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); diameter 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

625 - 500 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1715, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1420a, b