pyxidium , także: pyxis

This style is used especially on pyxides and cups.

They, too, mainly painted pyxides and oinochoai with animal friezes.

The containers included aryballoi, alabastra, pyxides and other small specialized shapes.

He then went on to create canthares, aquamaniles, rhytons, pyxides and animal figures.

Apart from bowls, askoi, pyxides and small lebetes gamikoi were also painted.

The plural is pyxides.

The best works of the Late Classical period are often found on smaller vessels, such as belly lekythoi, pyxides and oinochai.

Oil flasks (alabastra, aryballos), pyxides, kraters, oenochoes and cups were the most common vessels painted.

Boeotian potters especially liked to produce molded vases, as well as kantharos with sculptured additions and tripod pyxides.

In the early phase, large vessels like chalice kraters and hydriai were painted, but smaller vessels like flasks, lekanes, lekythoi and skyphoid pyxides are more typical.

In most cases this was a hybrid form between a kantharos and a skyphos with a deep bowl and vertical ring handles, but there were also lebes, cups and pyxides.

Originally mostly used by women to hold cosmetics, trinkets or jewellery, surviving pyxides are mostly Greek pottery, but especially in later periods may be in wood, metal, ivory, or other materials.

The leading shape is the neck amphora, providing about a quarter of all known Chalcidian vases, followed by Eye-cups, oinochoai and hydriai; rarer shapes include kraters, skyphoi and pyxides.

The favourite shapes of Meidias Painter and his followers were hydriai amongst the larger forms and squat lekythoi, choes and a variety of pyxides and lekanides preferred for smaller pieces.

Among the vases made or decorated by him are belly amphorae, Type A cups, calyx craters, Little master cups, Siana cups, dinoi, pyxides, and at least one Panathenaic amphora.

Also from EM IIA are the cylindrical and spherical pyxides called Fine Gray Ware or just Gray Ware, featuring a polished surface with incised diagonals, dots, rings and semicircles.

In Epiros, graves and funerary chests yielded gold danakes along with kantharoi, lamps, pyxides, figurines, gold rings, gold oak leaves, iron strigils, a bone flute, fragments of funerary stelae and a marble head of a young man.