Currently not on view
Pyxis fragment with Dionysos and panther,
3rd–4th century CE
Roman, Egypt
y1962-47
Information
Title
Pyxis fragment with Dionysos and panther
Dates
3rd–4th century CE
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
11.2 x 5.0 x 2.0 cm (4 7/16 x 1 15/16 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase
Object Number
y1962-47
Place Made
Egypt, Alexandria ?
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
Purchased from Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, in 1962.
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Antike Kunstwerke: Nachlass Dr. Jacob Hirsch II. Teil und anderer Besitz: alt-Ägypten: Reliefs, Plastik in Stein, Bronze und Fayence, Koptische Gewebe: Griechenland, Rom, Byzanz: Plastiken aus Marmor, Terrakotta und Bronze, Vasen, Goldschmuck, Glas und Elfenbein, (Luzern: Ars Antiqua, 1959).
, p. 68; cat. no. 170 - "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 22, no. 1 (1963): p. 15-19., p. 16
- R. G. Calkins, A medieval treasury: an exhibition of Medieval art from the third to the sixteenth century, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1968)., cat. no. 42, p. 129f, pl. 42 (illus.)
- Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., cat. no. 146; p. 119
- Archer St. Clair, Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The carver's art, Medieval sculpture in ivory, bone, and horn, (New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989)., cat. no. 76
