Pyxis

Object Number

SMP2782

Name

Pyxis

Description

Pyxis with high neck and sloping shoulder. The raised horizontal handles start from the middle of the cylindrical body and ascend vertically to a point above the shoulder. Its design on the one face depicts pendent loops either side of a central group of vertical lines with a wavy border; the other face omits the central division

joins the loops together with a cross-hatched lozenge placed below them. On the shoulder

a frieze of chevrons.

Specimen Count

1

Preservation State

Complete

Collection Date From

1-Aug-62

Department

Knossos

Collection

Stratigraphical Museum

Other IDs

P6

UM II: p.64

Pl. 49(a); BSA supp. 7: Pl. 14(a).

EMu IRN

166067