Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

7th-6th century BCE

Etruscan

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Etruscan
Title: Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects)
Place: Etruria (Artist's nationality)
Date: 699 BCE–501 BCE
Medium: terracotta
Credit Line: Gift of Alfred Emerson
Reference Number: 1910.209a-b
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Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 26.

Alfred Emerson (1859-1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1910.

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