Terracotta Pyxis Attributed to the Group of Athena-Head Pyxides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2011

Terracotta pyxis (box)


Attributed to the Group of Athena-Head Pyxides

Period: Classical

Date: ca. 400 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. with cover 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm) H. without cover 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm) diameter of box and cover 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1923

Accession Number: 23.160.14a, b

Description:

Head of Athena

The helmet identifies this personage as Athena. The rendering is comparable to that on the obverse of Athenian coinage. On the pyxis as well as the coins, the format is circular.


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