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Pyxis (Toiletry Box)
9th Century BCE-8th Century BCE2 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 3 1/4 in. (6 x 8.5 x 8.2 cm)
Syrian artist
Syria
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Red porphyry
Credit Line:
R. T. Miller Fund
Accession Number:
1949.14
Location: Currently on view
This small vessel, fashioned from a single block of stone to hold fine cosmetics or ointments, once included a lid which swiveled to one side. The carving on the pyxis shows two double-headed sphinxes, a deer gazing at a large bird, and two banqueters at a table piled high with loaves of bread.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
[Gallery label text, 2009]
Provenance
Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948), by 1930; purchased from him by Joseph Brummer, New York (dealer), 1944; his sale, part I, Parke-Bernet, New York, April 20-23, 1949, lot 56; purchased by the Gallery at that sale
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This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection Memorial Art Gallery 9/30/1949 - 10/30/1949
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Author: Sams, G. Kenneth. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988. Page Number: 16-17
- Article Title: Notable Additions to the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance Collections. Article Scope: Article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 15, Issue Number: 1. Issue Date: October, 1949.
- Article Author: Sams, G. Kenneth. Article Title: The Herzfeld Pyxis: North Syrian Sculpture in Miniature. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Porticus. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery Volume Number: 3 Issue Date: 1980. Page Number: 1-12
- Article Author: Brayer, Betsy. Article Title: The Herdles Go A-Hunting. Article Scope: Article. Rochester Review. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press Issue Date: Spring 1981. Page Number: 16
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Article Author: Kozloff, Arielle P.. Article Title: Three Ancient Near Eastern Celebrations and a Guest of Honor. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art Volume Number: LXI, Issue Number: 1. Issue Date: January 1974. Page Number: 14-26, Figure Number: 7-10
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. The Notable Art Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer, Part I. New York, NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 4/20/1949-4/23/1949.
- Article Author: Muscarella, Oscar White. Article Title: Near Eastern Bronzes in the West: The Question of Origin. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Suzannah F. Doeringer, ed. Art and Technology: A Symposium on Classical Bronzes. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1970. Page Number: 109-128, Figure Number: 11
- Article Author: Herzfeld, Ernst. Article Title: Hettitica. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. Volume Number: II Issue Date: 1930. Page Number: 132-203, Figure Number: 1, 2
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Winfried Orthmann. Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst. Bonn, Germany: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1971.
- Article Scope: Mention. Oscar White Muscarella. The Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures. Groningen: StYX Publications, 2000.
- Article Author: Tritsch, F. J.. Article Title: The Lycian Chimera. Article Scope: Mention. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Congress of Orientalists. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1957. Page Number: 73-74
- Scene. Rochester, NY: Arts & Cultural Council, 1969-1976.
- Article Author: Sams, G. Kenneth. Article Title: Phrygian Painted Animals: Anatolian Orientalizing Art. Article Scope: Mention. Anatolian Studies: Journal of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. London, England: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Volume Number: 24 Issue Date: December 1974. Page Number: 188 ff. 65, 66; 194 ff. 99
- Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes.
- Margarete Riemschneider. Die Welt der Hethiter. Stuttgart, Germany: Gustav Kilpper Verlag, 1954.
- Article Author: Mazzoni, Stefania. Article Title: Syro-Hittite Pyxides between Major and Minor Art. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Jan-Waalke Meyer and Mirko Novák. Beiträge zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Winfried Orthmann gewidmet. Frankfurt Am Main, Germany: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 2001. Page Number: 295-296, 298, Figure Number: 5, p. 304
- Article Author: Soldi, Sebastiano. Article Title: Chimaeric Animals in the Ancient Near East. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. G. Carlotta Cianferoni. Myth, Allegory, Emblem: The Many Lives of the Chimera of Arezzo. Rome, Italy: Aracne, 2012. Page Number: 91-112, Figure Number: 18
- Article Author: Mazzoni, Stefania. Article Title: Pyxides and Hand-Lion Bowls: A case of minor arts. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Claudia E. Suter, ed. Crafts and Images in Contact: Studies on Eastern Mediterranean art of the first millennium BCE. Fribourg, Switzerland: Academic Press Fribourg, 2005. Page Number: 44, Figure Number: 1, pl. XI
- Article Author: Gilibert, Alessandra. Article Title: Die Nordsyrische Sphinx. Article Scope: Article. Lorenz Winkler Horacek, ed. Wege der Sphinx: Monster zwischen Orient und Okzident. Rahden, Germany: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2011. Page Number: 86
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