Pyxis and Lid with Sphinx-Shaped Handle

650-625 BCE (Orientalizing)

10.5 cm 14.1 cm 10.4 cm

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This pyxis (box) was fashioned in imitation of Phoenician luxury goods imported from the Near East. Although it incorporates many Near Eastern elements in its decoration, including sphinxes, a lotus plant, and chariots, the style of the figures shows it is clearly the product...

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Sorbo Necropolis (near the Regolini-Galassi Tomb), Cerveteri, 1877; Martinetti Collection; Dr. Bourguignon and M. Canessa; Bourguignon and Canessa Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 19-21, 1910, no. 338; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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