object type: multiple pyxis in soft stone
<p>- description: elaborate pyxis in the form of a hut, consisting of entrance and 7 cylindrical rooms around a central court, lid missing - production place: Cyclades - artist / workshop: the sculptor of the spiral decoration - period / date: early cycladic II, Keros-Syros Culture, ca. 2500 BC - material: chlorite schist - hight: 9,5 cm - findspot: Melos - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen WAF 1839 - bibliography: Pat Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age, Pennsylvania 1996, 202, nr. 10, plate 110b, fig. 108f
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