object type: stone vessel
<p>- description: pyxis lid, handle in the form of a sleeping dog; perforations through the belly of the dog and on the rim in order to fix the lid to the pyxis; incised linear and relief decoration
- production place: Crete, same artist as pyxis with lid Herakleion AM 2719, found in the Gorge of the Dead (Zakros)
- period / date: prepalatial period, early minoan II, 2500-2400/2000 BC
- material: green stone: chlorite / schist / slate
- height: 3.0 cm
- diameter: 11 / 12 cm
- findspot: Mochlos, tomb 1
- museum / inventory number: Heraklion, Archaeological Museum 1282
- bibliography: Sinclair Hood, The Arts in Prehistoric Greece, 1978, fig. 131
- Peter Warren, Minoan Stone Vases, Cambridge 1969, P 457, D 250
- Pat Getz-Gentle, Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age, Pennsylvania 1996, plate 111a 
- Nota Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, The Archeological Museum of Herakleion, Athens 2005, 67
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