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

All except the pyxis are decorated with painted figures, and contain flowers.

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 Smith, A. H.

Pyxidata means made like a box, from pyxis, a box.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

On the Dodwell pyxis of 650 to 620 B.C., a man wears an oval shield, covering him from the base of the neck to the ankles.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew