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Source Description
The body of the pyxis is decorated with a bull, griffin, and dog in profile with volutes on each side of the dog separating it from the other creatures. The lid is decorated by a pattern of palmettes and volutes surrounded by a border of egg-and-dart. There is a hole in the center of the lid where a knob handle would have attached.
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Document identity
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15013
label
Pyxis with Animal Frieze
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obj
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object
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Source metadata
id
15013
sourceUrl
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object
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normalized
title
Pyxis with Animal Frieze
description
The body of the pyxis is decorated with a bull, griffin, and dog in profile with volutes on each side of the dog separating it from the other creatures. The lid is decorated by a pattern of palmettes and volutes surrounded by a border of egg-and-dart. There is a hole in the center of the lid where a knob handle would have attached.
provenance
Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge Sale, London, May 23-24, 1921, lot no. 243; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
4th-3rd century BCE (Classical-Hellenistic)
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Ceramics
pyxides
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8
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8
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cm
width
8
height
11.7
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 1/8 x W: 4 5/8 in. (8 x 11.7 cm)
Source extras
cul
Greek
med
terracotta; red figure
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6256
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GRC
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none
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