object type: stone vessel
<p>- description: pyxis with lid, handle in the form of a sleeping dog; perforations through the belly of the dog and on the rim (also on the cylindrical body of the pyxis) in order to fix the lid to the pyxis
- production place: Crete, same artist as pyxis lid Herakleion AM 1282, found on Mochlos
- period / date: prepalatial period, early minoan II, 2500-2400/2000 BC
- material: green stone: chlorite / schist / slate
- findspot: tomb in the Gorge of the Dead, leading to (Kato) Zakros
- museum / inventory number: Heraklion, Archaeological Museum 2719
- bibliography: Peter Warren, Minoan Stone Vases, Cambridge 1969
- Nota Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, The Archeological Museum of Herakleion, Athens 2005, 67
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