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Pyxis
Greek
Classical Period
450–430 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number93.108
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Description(a) Pyxis.
Side A: At left a seated woman; work basket at her feet. Next a bearded man, facing the woman, behind him a second woman, raising her mantle from her shoulder; last an altar.
Side B: A youth, fallen on his knees, extends his right arm towards a Nike who flies towards him. At the right another youth starts away.
(b) Cover.
Side A: At left a seated woman; work basket at her feet. Next a bearded man, facing the woman, behind him a second woman, raising her mantle from her shoulder; last an altar.
Side B: A youth, fallen on his knees, extends his right arm towards a Nike who flies towards him. At the right another youth starts away.
(b) Cover.
ProvenanceBy 1893: with Mr. de Caix de Saint-Aymour in Paris (said to have been found in the island of Euboea, at Eretria); purchased from him by an Anonymous donor; Anonymous gift to MFA, March 1893