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eggs tonee gilded).
Red-figure. (woman seated to the right 011 3 klismos holding an
o~n-work basket. woman approaches her from the right. between
them a loutrophoros';lydria); Talcott and others. 5m01l objects
from ,h,' Pnyx: 11. Hf'SperiU Supplemt'lll X. no. 143. plo J I and
fig. 1. For the subject ef. the lid of a pyxis type C. Cambridge
20.23 (CVA. Great Britain 6. Cambridge I. plo 36.2). For the
basket. Richter and Hall. pp. 215-6. no. 169.
175-350 B_C
4. A,hen.l. Ceramicus 3104. from Athens.
Ring handle missing. H. 0.065. H. with lid
0.155. D. of lid 0.19.
0.088. D. al rim
lid domed with two lightly raised rings around ccntcr, rim
tilted upward. Wall slightly concan~ with sloping lower keel. ring
foot.
Lid: frieze framed between reserved groove and reserved line:
nOm: egg (black core with raised dot) and dot.
Wall: palmettes alternately vertical and reversed within
triangular frame; IO\l'('r ked: egg (black core with raised dot) and
dot.
Otchel Group. seated ~'oman with Eros. seated woman wilh
Ems and maid (Epaulia); AthMiu 81 (1%6) 74. Dei!. 48.1.3 and
49.4 (SchJOrb-Vierneisel); AlA 77 (1973) 435-437. For the wall
pallern see the next entry and a pyxis. type C. once Hearst 2395
(Calalogue Purke Berne'S April 1963, no. 29); also Athens. Agora
p 4939 fr. (H. 0.055, D. est. 0.19 found ill Fauvel's huuse Hl'spf'ritl
25 11956] 27 under C); also a wooden pyxis in Ihc Louvf'C (AA
(19551 figs. 7.i and 12).
Ca. 370-360 B.C.
5. Baltimore. Wailers Art Gallery 48.264 (ex Drummer).
H. 0.072. H. with lid 0.093, D. at rim 0.125. D. of lid 0.161. H.
of foot 0.012.
Lid domed with slightly raised ring around the «mer and ridge
articulating juncture wilh wide flat rim. Wall. conca\'e with
moulding at top and a sloping lower keel grooved on either side.
ring foot.
Lid frieze between irregularly resen-ed lines; drn. egg and dot.
Wall palmelt~ alternately \ertical and re\'ersed .... ilhin
triangular frame; lower leeel: egg and dot.
Red-figure. seated ~oman .... ilh Eros. maId. Eros and ....oman.
St)'k contemporaneous with the last but .....ith Meidian m'ertones.
ell..170-]60 B.e.
b. Adolphsf'cle 65. from Athens.
H. 0.087. H.....ith lid 0.105. O. at rim 0.152, D. of lid 0.21.
Domed lid .... ilh lightly raised ring around Ihe center. wide nal
rim, ~an conca\'e .... ith strongl)' projecting convex lower keel, ring
fOOl.
Underside of rim and lower keel of scalloped contour.
Lid Irieze; rim: egg and dot.
W~IJ laurel ~reath; lol'l'l'r Icf'i>{ egg (black core) and dol.
Ked.figure. scaled oman ~ilh Eros and .... oman, sealed
~oman .... ith Eros and oman; CVA, Germany 11. Adolphseck I,
pI. 42, I and 3 (protile, fig. 7).
Ca. .175·]50 8.C.
There arc fe ..... founh century pyxides of type C and of these
most clmtinue the canon of the Class of Athens 1243. The wall is
C)lindrical or slighlly conca\'e with a lower keel clearly offset. The
rim also is distinctly offset from the domed lid. The~ is a ring
fOOl connected by a curved contour to'the lower nange. The trend
is towards larger dimensions: the diameter of the lids arc the
largcst recorded for type C. As fourth century pyxides of type A
(the Doubles) are Ihe tallest so Ihese are the broadest of their
k.ind. Most of the examples stem from the second quarter of the
fourth century and production appears to come to an end about
350 B_Co
No. I (Athens 13(9) is inlact. The lid is domed with an
uptillcd rim: the wall is slightly concave with a sloping lower keel.
The rim of the lid projects slightly furl her than the lower keel.
The foot is a variant on the ring type with a curved section
connecting it with the lower keel. A curious and perhaps
accidental feature is that the sloping floor of the pyxis is lower