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Lidded container (pyxis) with women and their wool

Lidded container (pyxis) with women and their wool

about 450 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, White Ground
DimensionsOverall: 18.5 x 15cm (7 5/16 x 5 7/8in.)
Credit LineGift of Horace L. Mayer
Accession number65.1166
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
Inscriptions"Lysandra gave [it] to Lysimachis" (LUSANDRA EDOKE LUSIMACHIDI) ΛΥΣΑΝΔΡΑ ΕΔΟΚΕ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΙΔΙ
Provenance1965, sold by Petros (Peter) Vitalis to Horace L. Mayer (b. 1899 - d. 1968), Williamstown, MA; 1965, gift of Horace L. Mayer to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 1965)

NOTE: Said to have been found with MFA accession no. 65.908.
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