Pyxis

MS3439A

From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS3439A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Attic
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Manufacture Location Attica
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Figure
Iconography Woman | Man | Dance
Description

Nicosthenic pyxis. Men, youths, and women. Beazley, Paralipomena, p. 108: "The lowermost cut on Hoppin 201, published by him as part of the Florence pyxis, is taken from Milani Mon. scelti pl. 1, 5, and represents a pyxis in Philadelphia, from Orvieto (MJ 174 and 176)." On p. 174, the pyxis MS 3439A appears with the lid MS 4846; on p. 176, the lid MS 4846 appears alone. And it is MJ [Museum Journal] v. 6 (1915).; small parts of all elements restored in plaster. Procession of male and female figures, for the most part draped, converging from two directions on an isolated mude male figure leaping or dancing.

Height 15.3 cm
Outside Diameter 17 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898

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