| Collection: | Paris, Musée du Louvre |
| Summary: | The sides of the pyxis are decorated with images of women inside the house |
| Ware: | Attic Red Figure |
| Date: | ca. 450 BC - ca. 400 BC |
| Shape: | Pyxis |
| Beazley Number: | 9599 |
| Period: | High Classical |
Decoration Description: A continouous figural frieze decorates the outside of the pyxis. Between two columns stands a woman, reaching to (kneeling before?) an altar; a wreath is hung on the wall behind her. In the next intercolumniation flies a winged Nike, with a wreath, toward a low altar. A woman, swathed in a himation, is seated profile to the right on a stool, between the last column and a door, to the right of which runs another woman, shown in 3/4-view to the right, toward a basin, although she turns her head profile to the left, toward the door.
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