Pyxis (vessel)

: pyxides) is a shape of vessel from the classical world, usually a cylindrical box with a separate lid and no handles.

[2] Surviving pyxides are mostly Greek pottery, but could also be made from a range of other materials: wood, bronze, ivory, marble, terracotta, silver, or stone.

The earliest were the Protogeometric type of vessel which had a globular body, and the pointed-bottom pyxis from the early Geometric period.

It is characterised by a deep, calyx-shaped bowl with a flanged rim and a stemmed foot, and a domed lid.

[8] Evidence suggests that this was a popular type on the eastern Aegean island of Samos and in Etruria between 560–500 BCE.