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THE ATTIC PvDS<br />
'9<br />
a ring or tripanitt foot exist. Both forms of lid construction<br />
current: the lid flanged below to fit within the mouth of the pot<br />
(Fig. la) and the newer model in which the body is flanged and<br />
the lid fits over it (PI. 1.2). A modified animal frieze .....ith link or<br />
no filling ornament as .....ell as the figured frieze are found.<br />
Only a few examples date from the yean 540-520 R.e. They<br />
eauId not be mort \'aried as one is black (no. 19),tone<br />
semi-glazed (no. 18), the third patterned (no. 16. PI. 4.3), and the<br />
last black-figured (no. 17. PI. 5.0. Striking is the absence of<br />
mouldings at the lOp and base of the wall and the clear simple<br />
concave curve of the wall. All are footed. No. 18 has an inset<br />
flange for the lid and the other three have a wide nat rim: no. 16<br />
(PI. 4,3) and no. 19 show that these lids ate flanged beneath and<br />
the vertical edge of the lid is cOnliguous with the top of the pyxis<br />
wall.<br />
The patterned Heidelberg pyxis (no. 16. PI. 4,J). cumes from a<br />
grave on the .....est slope of the Acropolis together with a miniature<br />
skyphos krater of the Swan Groupll and a trefoil oinochoe by the<br />
Painlcr of Vatican 342." The context suggests a date range of ca.<br />
540·520 B.C.<br />
A wreath of lotus buds. with points up\1lard. docorates a zone of<br />
both lid and box. This is a favoriate shoulder pallern on<br />
black-figure lekythoi. Miss Haspels observed that the pattern was<br />
used from the period of early Amasis. In the leagros period the<br />
pattern was revef2d and thereafter the lotus buds were depicted<br />
,",,'ith points downward. U<br />
Brussels A 1375 (no. 17. PI. 5.1)1J like Heidelberg has a simple<br />
CQncave wall with a .....ide flat rim. The base of the wall slopes<br />
inward to a juncture with a low ring foot. The formation of base<br />
and foot resembles a small pyxis from the Agora (no. 18). The<br />
f(Xlt of the Agora example is notched but the profile is similar.<br />
The Brussels pyxis. however. is the largest of the black-figure<br />
examples having a height of 0.14 and a diameter of 0.23. This<br />
is a sudden enlargement of the shape for hitherto the black-figure<br />
pyxides noted ha\'c been of modest size. On account of the<br />
similarity of the rims of the Heidelberg and Brussels pyxides the<br />
missing lid should be restored to resemble that of Heidelberg (PI.<br />
4.J). The date should be about S20 B.e.<br />
""OTES CHAPTER I<br />
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latn- For cnmu p)..idrs WC" pp JO'>-.JO!I.<br />
J IW. pp_ 190-191; Hr~P"W' IJ U94-') 52·504.<br />
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6. HUfw.riIl IJ U944) 57.<br />
7. CVA, U.5.A .• 12. The Metropolit.n Museum of Art J, pI. lJ. (New York<br />
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IotU$ belwren. The p.[mcIlC$ are crudely incisedl. T..·o furth
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