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Source Description
This vessel likely held perfume and would have had a lid (now missing). Decoration on the exterior of the bowl, thought to be modern, shows a nude seated woman holding the reins of two hippocamps who are approaching a triton. Eros flies above the reins. The scene is identified as Amphitrite and Poseidon.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
40656
label
Tall-Stemmed Pyxis
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obj
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object
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1
Source metadata
id
40656
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object
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normalized
title
Tall-Stemmed Pyxis
description
This vessel likely held perfume and would have had a lid (now missing). Decoration on the exterior of the bowl, thought to be modern, shows a nude seated woman holding the reins of two hippocamps who are approaching a triton. Eros flies above the reins. The scene is identified as Amphitrite and Poseidon.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
5th-4th century BCE (Classical)
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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pyxis
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Greek
med
turned stone (alabaster); red, blue, green paint
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6256
collection_ids
GRC
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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b655644f3dc0ac9e