WALL CASE H. Replica stone pyxis

Accession Number AN1936.586
Year c. 1936
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Replica stone pyxis from Mycenae with spotted decoration. The similarity of the decoration of this vessel with other similar objects from Knossos, dated Middle Minoan III, provided Evans with evidence for his disputed early dating of the Treasury of Atreus.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 233-234, fig. 179

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 23