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English: object type: stone vessel

- 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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