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Side 0llitl: resen'ed band. black band. Base moulding: rt.-,;en'ed
band. black line. H.esen"ed line abm'e and below frieze.
Briseis Painter, red·figure· women' ARV 'IO"J u· h
. _ . ',. .. .u: 1'\1t.: ter.
AI/e'll"~" f/lnllllln •. fig. 195: Cecil Smith, Cutu/ogllt" 01 ,hi' Gr"f'fc
Ill/(/ 1.1r1/5(:1I1/ VaSl's ill ,h" lld/ish MIISl·IU". Ill. 110. E 769.
CII. 480·470 H.C.
9. A.,hn,.s ~ol908. from Athens. PI. 18.1. Fig. 9d.
. lid ml.,>slOg. H. 0.094. D. at rim 0.081. H. of foot 0.024. Cnnca\"e.
IIN.'t Ilange hlr lid. tall. comex lripanite fool. Blad. hand. rl~cned
line abO\'e frieze: bd(JII'.· black band bel~een reserved lin~.
Close 10 the Wedding Pailller, red-figure: Judgement of Paris:
ANV. 924, CVA. Greece I. Athens I. pi. 6. 4·6: Purtllip(ml.'lItl, 431.
0,. 480·4m Il. C.
10. Cumbnclgf' GR 10.1934.
Knob missing. H. 0.094. tOlal presened H. 0.103. D. at nm
0.086. D. of lid 0.10, H. orfOOI 0.016.
long r:OIlr:3\'e r:urve. side uf lid slightly concavc, tripartite fool.
Lid: ahcrnating \·enica1. circumscribed palmelle bcvcn petal)
and flower linked by tendril. ~hite dots abo\'e flanking f1o~ers and
below in tendril loop on either sKle of palmene.
Side ot/iel' black. Reserved band abo\'e and belu~ frieze.
H.ed-figure. Zcus pun.uing Aigina: JUS qo (1970) 19.\-194. pI. I.
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et/. 470 lJ.c.
11. WursUlt' /98509.
Insel flange for lid, long COnC3\"e ~all Io\ith torus moulding al
haloc. tripanite fOOl. lid flat with down-turned rim. conc:l.\·e In
profile. acorn knob.
H.t'~en'l·cI: acorn knob \.glazed line around l'cnter to differenliate
Ihe two parts alld black moulding at base), lo\.\er edge of lid and
upper surface of body, gt(x}\"e a~)\"e base moulding. fool.
Black. Maria L Hernhard. Gn'cfc;e MlIlunom WU:Oln'. fig. 51:
A,1toro XII. 174 and footnote 8.
12. Lunn .17./009.
lid nlissing. box mended from numerous fragments. H. 0.105.
0.0.10.
Inset flange for lid. long body, conca,'c; closed. flaring foot of
proportionatel}' small diameler.
onset moulding above and below frieze. ornamented wilh black
net paltcrn.
Diad-figure. Io\omen: CVA. France 20. Laon I. pI. 11. I-J.
Co_ 490 H.C.
"fhe p}xides listed above dcrin= from Ihe yea~ 490-470 H.C. and
they havc cenain common characteristics. They are concave with
an inset Ilange at the top for the lid. The lid has a down-turncd rim
to cm'er thc flange and in some the lid profile colltinues and
completes the cune of the body. In IWO instances (nos. 7-8) the lid
has a do~n·turned rim wilh a flangc set belov.' it. Both a long
slcnder body and a squat compact body may be found. both
continued in thc ~ellled red-figure classes 10 follow. The grealest
diversity comes in the form of the foot. Most arc tripartite. a few
have a ring foot but the influence of foot types of olher vase shapes
is also apparenl. 80th psykter (no. 11) and cup foot type C (nos.
3-4) may be recogni7ed.
The number of black-figure and red-figure examples is fairl}
even but there arc also rare black-glaze (no. 11) and patterned
examples (no. 2·J). Singletons occur whose slyle links them to small
black-figure classes (nos. 1. 4).
These IWO decades are Ihose of erratic experime0l3tion from
,,-hose e1emcnts a new canon eveOlually cmerged. The frequent lack
of harmony between Ihe three pans-lid, bod}' and foot is
suggesth'e of the experimeOlal ferment evidenced by Ihese vases.
~ne number of singletons should not cause surprise as it is
evident no workshop specialized in the production of pyxides.
There ~alo little demand' few were made and evcn Io\'orkshon.: which
d" ,,-
Id prodUce small classes also made sin/lllctons.
I take the long bodied type first. Athens 19271 (no. I, Pis. 16.2
and 17,2) has a base moulding, tradilional but ouldated by ca. 490
D.e. Delow it i~ a low bev...led ring foot. The lid profile connects