object type: stone vessel
<p>- description: biconical pyxis with lid, the body consisting of 2 halves, with 2 perforated lug handles, disc-shaped flat lid also with 4 perforations, relief decoration (zigzag and joined spirals)
- production place: Crete or imported from the Cyclades („spiral master“)
- period / date: prepalatial period, early minoan II, 2500-2400/2000 BC / early cycladic
- material: green stone: chlorite / schist / slate
- height: 11.9 cm
- diameter: 17 cm
- findspot: Maronia cave tomb
- museum / inventory number: Heraklion, Archaeological Museum 2339
- bibliography: Sinclair Hood, The Arts in Prehistoric Greece, 1978, fig. 130
- Peter Warren, Minoan Stone Vases, Cambridge 1969, D 246, P 252a-b
- Pat Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age, Pennsylvania 1996, plate 111b 
- Nota Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, The Archeological Museum of Herakleion, Athens 2005, 67
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