Women carding wool depicted in the attic red figure drinking cup by the douris painter dated from around 480 470 bc found in vulci italy now on display in the altes museum in berlin germany.
Attic pyxis creater.
Gift of herbert l.
A red figure attic pyxis 460 450 bce.
Metropolitan museum of art new york.
In the grave they may have contained perishable offerings such as food.
Terracotta pyxis box with lid mid 8th century b c.
Attic geometric lidded pyxis unknown 800 760 b c.
Pyxides were lidded boxes used for storing small items such as jewellery.
The knob of the lid assumes many different forms.
The goddess appears as a sprightly little girl being grasped by a comparatively mature eros.
12 10 x 25 4 cm.
Open content images tend to be large in file size.
While pyxides are frequently found in burials they also may have served as a container for small objects during the owner s lifetime.
The occasion is the birth perhaps rather the advent of aphrodite.
Attic tripod pyxis with lid.
A pyxis with sculpted decoration.
Birth of aphrodite on this pyxis women who normally sit rather languidly with their caskets and perfume flasks are galvanized into activity.
The knob usually found on the lid is replaced here by a remarkable sculpted group apparently representing a quadriga four horses harnessed abreast to a two wheeled chariot.
Not on view due to temporary getty closure.
A pyxis πυξίς plural pyxides is a shape of vessel from the classical world usually a cylindrical box with a separate lid.
Attic geometric pyxis 8th century bc.
4 3 4 x 10 in.
Attic black figure pyxis fragment comprised of 2 joined fragments.
2 2 cm 7 8 in.
Los angeles county museum of art los angeles united states.
This example depicts the birth of aphrodite with eros on the left.
Attic red figure pyxis ca.
Originally mostly used by women to hold cosmetics trinkets or jewellery surviving pyxides are mostly greek pottery but especially in later periods may be in wood metal ivory or other materials.
Attic geometric lidded pyxis.
Catalan museum of archaeology barcelona spain.