Pyxis

Ear-rings in various shapes, necklaces in numerous rows, bracelets in the forms of hoops or snakes for the upper and lower arms, and various other trinkets v. 'ere in great request, and were kept in a species of casket or box, called pyxis, from the name of the wood of which it was orignaliy made; and these caskets, as Avell as the small oval hand mirrors of metal, ❋ Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831 (1812)

Ranging in size from two to ten centimeters, the pieces include an ivory furniture plaque, a gold ring, a red jasper stamp seal, and the flat lid of a pyxis, or small box — from Anatolia, Mycenae, Vapheio, and Byblos, respectively. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the museum we have a pyxis that was once a container for the Eucharist and stored in a church treasury. ❋ Philippe De Montebello (2008)

The word pyx (Lat., pyxis, which transliterates the Greek, pyxis, box-wood receptacle, from pyxos, box-tree) was formerly applied in a wide and general sense to all vessels used to contain the Blessed ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Even the names by which they were known (capsa, capsella, theca, pyxis, arca etc.) are quite general in character, and it seems certain that the same names also designated receptacles for the Blessed Eucharist, the holy oils, and other pious objects. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Dodwell pyxis of 650 to 620 B.C., a man wears an oval shield, covering him from the base of the neck to the ankles. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Vaphio cups, found in a _tholos_ chamber-tomb near Amyclae, the men are "long-haired Achaeans," with heavy, pendent locks, like the man on a pyxis from Knossos, published by Mr. Evans; they are of another period than the close-cropped men of the vase and dagger. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

If Homer does not know small circular shields, but refers always to huge shields, whereas, from the eighth century B.C. onwards, such shields were not in use (disregarding Tyrtaeus, and the vase of Aristonothos on which they appear conspicuously, and the Dodwell pyxis), where are we? ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

In one -- the pyxis -- the plastron is furnished with a transverse hinge, so that the animal can retract its head and fore-limbs within the carapace, and close the plastron upon it, first shutting them in. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

"They form a pyxis," she explained, a jewel box that's a "little like a castle turret." ❋ Unknown (2012)

Detail from a pyxis showing a scene from the women's quarter, c450BC Photograph: British Musuem ❋ Unknown (2010)

About Pyxis Discovery B.V. (www. pyxis-discovery.com) ❋ Unknown (2009)

The inscription is etched above a masterfully carved image of the deceased, who sits at an offering table filled with food, symbolizing the lavish banquet he hoped to enjoy in the afterlife: duck in a pedestaled stone bowl, two loaves of bread that conform to the upward-curved shape of a flat-footed bowl, a ball of meat, and a square pyxis, likely an ivory box with a lid, which would have contained condiments for the feast. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the same tomb (tomb 37) one more pyxis (pi. xxxv, A), again with birds on either side of the mouth, was found. ❋ Unknown (1770)

Khiro - kitia has, however, yielded a great number of stone vessels in which the pyxis shape may be easily identified. ❋ Unknown (1770)

Plan the recess were large Red Polished jugs, a Red Polished incised pyxis (141), a spindle-whorl and a bronze pin. ❋ Unknown (1770)

& pgr; υ&xgr; ις (pyxis) a ` smallish boxwood box 'for & pgr; ιθος, the largest wine storage container. ❋ Unknown (1993)

3» Si pyxis hoftiis parvis plena fit prsfensmo - raliter Sacerdoti, fed non fuerit aperta ante. oblationem, & confecrationem, illicite quidem ad fieret, ied cum moraliter pnefens eflet Sa - cerdoti, valida effet confecratio; q«od verum ❋ Unknown (1782)

XIV, b) together with the snake and the horned head (probably buirs), and especially on the double-necked jug (pi. xix, d) and the pyxis (pi. xxxv, a), where its meaning is more clearly suggested. ❋ Unknown (1770)

[Man], I'd [like to] [get into] that pyxis! ❋ Tipsybizmark (2011)

1: [pyxis] is [bootiful] ❋ Gae Unknown Blob (2022)

1: [pyxis] is [bootiful] ❋ Gae Unknown Blob (2022)