ROMAN BONE PYXIS WITH LID
ROMAN BONE PYXIS WITH LID
Cylinder-shaped pyxis with relief decoration of a winged, cuirassed and helmeted soldier holding round shield and running to the left, looking back, his head and one leg are carved in profile, his body ‘en face’; on each side of him a relief pattern of voluted scallop standing and hanging, as well as a voluted palmet and hanging; convex lid on top
Ex coll. G.S., UK, 2000
H. 7 cm. Lid stuck, otherwise intact
3rd- – 4th cent. AD
€ 2.250