Pyxis Lid

Ivory, incised; fragment of a pyxis lid; design: one surface has rosettes bordering edge, rest plain; other surface plain; edge decorated with guilloche with fragment of gold leaf remaining; plug hole almost all the way through from decorated surface; fragment only.

Muscarella Publication: "Fragment of a pyxis lid different from the above types. The obverse has a row of a small twelve-petaled rosettes, some of which were not completed. a large drilled hole at the left may have been for the attachment of a couchant calf; a smaller hole is at the right, in a space between two rosettes. The edge has a neat guilloche pattern still covered with gold foil. The reverse is plain."