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| Keywords: Byzantine - Circular Pyxis - Walters 7164 - View A.jpg The box is one of a small number to survive from the 4th through 7th centuries most carved with mythological pagan or Christian subjects Often called pyxides Greek for boxes they served a variety of functions such as holding incense or a woman's jewelry The walls of this one contain two episodes from Greek mythology First the Olympian gods are seen feasting around a tripod table and holding the golden Apple of the Hesperides In the next scene Hermes is awarding the apple to Aphrodite whom he chose over Athena and Hera shown to her sides as the most beautiful among goddesses century 5 6 Late Antique ivory cm 8 5 9 1 accession number 71 64 28991 Count Girolamo Possenti Fabriano by purchase Sale Florence March 29 1880 no 16 Eugen Felix Cologne date of acquisition unknown by purchase Sale Cologne October 25 1886 no 319 Henry Walters Baltimore 1926 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1926 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 Byzantine Women and Their World Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge 2002-2003 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Circular Pyxis Jewellery boxes The Feast of the Gods | ||||
