Pyxis

Object Number

SMP7494

Name

Pyxis

Description

Piece of a medium-sized to large

open vessel

full profile preserved

composed of five fragments

glued together. Flanged rim

almost straight slightly carinated body profile flat base. Semi-fine fabric

wheel-made

some excessive clay inside under rim. Slipped dark on light decoration on inside body (horizontal stripes)

rim (concentric stripe on side closer to vessel interior)

outside body (bands filled with four-petal flowers

vertical wave stripes

meander pattern filled with oblique strokes

framed by horizontal stripes)

and outside base (concentric stripes). Cf. publication description: Flat pyxis

rim to base. H. 0.093 m. D. of rim c. 0.28 m. Orange clay

white grit; semi-lustrous black glaze sic

thinned to brown for the hatching. Inset rim; wall nearly perpendicular

with slight double curve; flat base. Inside: rim glazed

three spaced bands below. Concentric bands under base. On wall outside: quatrefoil in silhouette

alternating with vertical wavy lines painted with a multiple brush; below

hatched meander. The flat pyxis is hitherto unrecorded in Cretan Geometric. This piece has the inset rim characteristic of the Attic MG-LG I version; but the straightness of the profile is rather in the Argive tradition: cf. Courbin

CGA pl. 81. The lid frs. 34 =SMP7486 could perhaps belong to this pyxis. and old catalogue description: Pyxis fragment: recomposed whole profile. Brown-black glaze sic; on exterior metopal decoration with quatrefoils

& below a hatched meander.

Specimen Count

1

Preservation State

Fragment

Collection Date From

1951

Department

Knossos

Collection

Stratigraphical Museum

Other IDs

1432

EMu IRN

165679