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- lid. The decorations on pyxides found in an Etruscan context tend towards depictions of battles and athletic contests; for pyxides found in Gr**** and near...
- There is no evidence of Ivory box or pyxides carvings in Spain before Umayyad rule. The quality of the craft of pyxides was vital due to the expense of ivory...
- the Gr**** word πυξίς, pyxis 'box, receptacle'. (The Gr****-like plural, pyxides, has given way to pyxes in English.) While the word may be applied to any...
- carpels, and in others each carpel splits open. Cir****scissile capsules (pyxide, pyxis, pyxidium or lid capsule) have a transverse, rather than longitudinal...
- department, the holdings became separate in 2003. Among the works are the Pyxide d'al-Mughira, a 10th century ivory box from Andalusia; the Baptistery of...
- period (7th century BC) date cotylae with angular handles, aryballoi and pyxides originating from Corinth, and other vessels. Attic pottery is represented...
- also been found. The most common shapes are cylindrical boxes, known as pyxides, and collared jars. They are crude in construction, with thick walls and...
- existence within some Egyptian m****cripts additionally comes from two ivory pyxides dated to around the 5th or 6th century, which depict the story of the adulteress...
- classical period are often found on smaller vessels, such as belly lekythoi, pyxides and oinochai. Lekanis, Bell krater(see Typology of Gr**** Vase Shapes) and...
- in his Historiarum Deorum Syntagma (1580), in which pithos was rendered pyxide, and she linked the pithos with the Pithoigia aspect of the Athenian festival...