Illustration
This vessel is decorated with an incised herring-bone pattern.
The pyxis, commonly used in burials of the Early Cycladic I Period, was probably used as a container for jewellery or other small items.
Early Cycladic I Period (3200-2700 BCE). Made from clay. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).
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