Asset ID:
10398
CMS Object ID:
387039
Accession Number:
AN1896-1908.G.302
Title:
Attic red-figure pottery pyxis depicting a domestic scene
Object Name:
type C pyxis
Associated person(s) + dates:
The Meidias Painter (artist)
Object dating:
420 BC - 400 BC ; Classical Period (Greece) (480 - 323 BC)
Associated place(s):
Unknown (find spot) ; Attica (place of creation)
Dimensions:
7.7 cm Body (height) ; 15 cm Body (diameter) ; 19.7 cm Lid (diameter) ; 2.1 cm Lid (height) ; 9.3 cm With Lid (height)
Materials/ techniques:
pottery, with painted decoration
Responsible department:
Antiquities
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
Key words:
- 420-401
- 59-60
- 5th
- 5th-4th
- cupids
- added
- anatomical
- ancient
- ankle
- anklet
- arm
- arv
- athenian
- athens
- attic
- b.c
- band
- bands
- bc
- beazley
- befits
- bends
- berries
- black
- body
- bottom
- boudoir
- bought
- box
- bracelet
- bracelets
- branch
- bronze
- brown
- bun
- burn
- case
- century
- chair
- chairs
- cheap
- chiton
- circumscribed
- close
- cm
- companion
- consists
- container
- contents
- conversations
- cosmetic
- cosmetics
- couple
- cupirds
- curiosity
- cva
- dart
- decoration
- details
- diadem
- domestic
- ear
- earrings
- edge
- egg
- end
- eros
- erotes
- example
- examples
- exterior
- face
- falls
- feathers
- features
- feet
- fifth
- figured
- figures
- first
- flange
- flesh
- foodstuffs
- front
- function
- g.302
- gem
- gilding
- gloss
- gods
- gold
- greek
- ground
- group
- groups
- gv
- hair
- hand
- handle
- hands
- hangs
- head
- help
- hem
- himation
- hole
- iiii
- individual
- ivy
- jar
- jewellery
- lady
- lap
- leaf
- leans
- left
- leg
- lid
- lidded
- lines
- lit
- love
- lust
- maeander
- many
- meidias
- metal
- naked
- nature
- necklace
- necklaces
- next
- nos
- oxford
- painter
- palmettes
- panel
- panels
- pattern
- pl
- platter
- pottery
- precious
- pyxides
- pyxis
- red-figure
- relief
- reserved
- ribbon
- right
- ring
- saltires
- sandal
- scene
- seated
- second
- serpentine
- shiny
- short-sleeved
- shoulders
- sides
- simple
- sits
- sleeveless
- something
- stars
- substitute
- surface
- taenia
- technique
- third
- trinkets
- tripod
- twenty-four
- type
- underside
- v.551
- v.557
- vase
- vases
- vickers
- vines
- waist
- wash
- winged
- wings
- woman
- women
- wreath
- wreaths
- wrist
- young
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