Pyxis bowls

Museum number:
8-267a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21080267a@2cb
Alternate number:
60 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.147
Description:
Bowls: (”Pyxis”), Oblong shaped, incurving rim, pierced lug at either side near top, no handle. Incised linear decoration of parallel zig-zags and straight lines. 8-267a has chip missing from rim, and has polished surface. 8-267b surface badly worn with only faint traces of dark red slip.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé
Collection place:
Cyprus
Verbatim coll. place:
Cyprus
Culture or time period:
Early Cypriot Bronze Age (ca. 2300–1900 BC) and Middle Cypriot Bronze Age (ca. 1900–1600 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson and M. Boissé
Collection date:
March 6, 1901
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pyxis bowls, accession number 8-267a,b, described as Bowls: (”Pyxis”), Oblong shaped, incurving rim, pierced lug at either side near top, no handle. Incised linear decoration of parallel zig-zags and straight lines. 8-267a has chip missing from rim, and has polished surface. 8-267b surface badly worn with only faint traces of dark red slip.

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