
Archaic II
Terracotta pyxis (box)
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)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration techniques
- Painted, PaintedPainted in two colours
- Motif
- Bands and lines
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 625 - 500 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Collection
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.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.1420a, b, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 1715
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