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A ''pyxis'' (, plural ''pyxides'') is a shape of vessel from the classical world, usually a cylindrical box with a separate lid. 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 name derived from Corinthian boxes made of wood from the tree ''puksos'' (boxwood), that also came with covers. The shape of the vessel can be traced in pottery back to the Protogeometric period in Athens, however the Athenian ''pyxis'' has various shapes itself. At first, the two varieties of ''pyxis'' included the pointed and the flat-bottomed. The pointed ''pyxis'' didn't last much longer than the ninth century BCE, while the flat-bottomed continued into the late Geometric. It also continued to grow larger and more squat in proportions. The cover often depicts elaborately sculpted handles and the walls tend to be somewhat convex. During the sixth century BCE, however, Athens began producing boxes with concave walls that enabled them to be grasped easily when ranged close together on a shelf. Compare the waisted shape of the medieval and Early Modern albarello. Images on the ''pyxis'' usually depict the marriage procession from a young girl's house to that of her new husband. Pyx is a term for a specifically liturgical box, usually cylindrical, but of variable design, still used for holding and transporting consecrated hosts in the traditional Christian churches, a use to which the church began to put these boxes at a very early date. ==Gallery== File:Byzantine - Circular Pyxis - Walters 7164 - View A.jpg|''Circular Pyxis'', 5th Century, The Walters Art Museum. File:Ivory Pyxis from Cordoba.JPG|Ivory pyxis from Cordoba, Spain, 10th Century AD, Victoria and Albert Museum. File:Egyptian blue Altes Museum.JPG|Pyxis made out of "Egyptian blue". Important to Italy from northern Syria. Produced 750-700 BC., Altes Museum. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pyxis (vessel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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