Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid
Unknown Artist
The lids to these containers also served as dishes. The larger, plain version is said to have been found at Arretium (modern Arezzo, Italy). The smaller is decorated with a barbotine relief design, suggesting a slightly later date for production; it belongs to a type of sigillata known as Tardo-Padana Ware, made in the Po Valley.
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.194.869)
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1906
1st–mid-2nd century A.D.
Terracotta
7.0 x 7.0cm
06.1021.283a, b
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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