Pyxis
MS3437
From: Italy | Etruria | Orvieto
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS3437 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Attic |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Orvieto |
| Manufacture Location | Attica |
| Date Made | 550-500 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Black Figure |
| Iconography | Men | Women | Dancer |
| Description | Nicosthenic pyxis, lacking foot and section of wall and rim. Fully glazed inside and out except for reserved, figured zone on upper wall. In zone are numerous male and female figures, the female figures all clothed, the male partly clothed, partly nude. These figures converge from two direction on a single nude male dancing figure advancing to the right. For general treatment of vessels of this shape in UM see EH Dohan, Mus. Journal VI, no. 4, p. 176 ff |
| Height | 12.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 18 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898 |
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