Pyxis

Description

Pyxis and lid of pale blue-green cast glass: Mediterranean, found in Crete, Hellenistic Period , 4th to 3rd century or late 2nd century BC

Museum reference

A.1880.18.12

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Pyxis

Production information

Crete, Greece, Southern Europe

Date

Hellenistic Period
4th - 3rd century BC
Late 2nd century BC

Style / Culture

Hellenistic

Materials

Glass

Associations

Piot Collection
Piot, Eugène, 1812-1890

References

Lightfoot, Christopher, ANCIENT GLASS IN NATIONAL MUSEUMS SCOTLAND, Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Limited, 2007, 41

Perrot, G., de Lasteyrie, R., Monuments et Mémoires. Vol. 1. Paris

Weinberg, G.D., Glass Manufacture in Ancient Crete, JGS 1, 1959, 10-21E

Historic Glass from Collections in North West England. Merseyside County Museums, 1979, 7 no. A12

Goldstein, S.M., Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, New York, 1979, 133-4 no. 276

E.M. Stern and B. Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World. 1600 B.C.–A.D. 50

Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit, 1994. 282-3 no. 78

Kunina, N., Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg, 1997., 255 no. 46