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NM Ant 0426 a :: pyxis

Object description: Slip-over lid (from ‘powder box’ pyxis). On top grooved ridge encircling centre and projecting, grooved rim; body with straight wall; slightly projecting rim at base. Yellowish buff clay; matt, red and lustrous, dark brown to black paint, on one side misfired to orange-red. On top centre (inside the ridge) small, red circle surrounded by linked, black and red lotus buds superimposed on outlined flower; ridge painted red; on top between ridge and rim zigzag line between cone pattern; rim painted red; one narrow and one broad band on body below rim, same above bottom; on mid-body metope and triglyph frieze: three thick, vertical bars between two groups of five, vertical lines - repeated four times - and two crossed lines and four dots between vertical lines; rim painted red.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 0426 a

Serie nummer

700

Object

pyxis

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Acquisition

Gift from the Swedish and Norwegian Consul at Piraeus, Mr. M. N. Rodocanachi, June 2, 1880.

Description

Slip-over lid (from ‘powder box’ pyxis). On top grooved ridge encircling centre and projecting, grooved rim; body with straight wall; slightly projecting rim at base. Yellowish buff clay; matt, red and lustrous, dark brown to black paint, on one side misfired to orange-red. On top centre (inside the ridge) small, red circle surrounded by linked, black and red lotus buds superimposed on outlined flower; ridge painted red; on top between ridge and rim zigzag line between cone pattern; rim painted red; one narrow and one broad band on body below rim, same above bottom; on mid-body metope and triglyph frieze: three thick, vertical bars between two groups of five, vertical lines - repeated four times - and two crossed lines and four dots between vertical lines; rim painted red.

Period

Archaic

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

c. 550-500 BC

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current