Pyxis

Ledged rim with two pairs of perforations; roughly semiglobular body; ring base. Reddish yellow clay; matt, black paint diluted to brown or maroon at places. Rim encircled by three concentric lines; on upper body metopes with stags - sometimes standing, sometimes lying down - and triangles, some hatched and some filled with a hatched triangle; in two metopes the stag is nibbling at a stylized plant; the metopes alternate with vertical, dotted lozenge chains (one of these replaced by hatched panel) framed by triple vertical lines; below this connected, dotted circles between horizontal lines; in the lowest zone three wavy lines; base encircled; dots on base; concentric line encircling bottom; quatrefoil and cross-hatched papyrus flowers on bottom.