pyxis
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The marriage is celebrated here in a pyxis attributed to the Meleager Painter.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2010
The pyxis was used by women at their toilet, and the lekythos, alabastron and askos for oil and unguents.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
A girl with a pyxis stands on the left behind the throne.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
Page 3, line 45. pyxidem.—The word pyxis, which occurs here, and in the next sentence as pyxidem nauticam, is translated compass.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
Pyxidata means made like a box, from pyxis, a box.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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