| LC control no. | sh 97006887 |
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| Topical heading | Pyxides (Toilet paraphernalia) |
| Variant(s) | Pix (Toilet paraphernalia) Pixes (Toilet paraphernalia) Pixi (Toilet paraphernalia) Pyx (Toilet paraphernalia) Pyxes (Toilet paraphernalia) Pyxis (Toilet paraphernalia) |
| See also | Containers Pottery, Classical Toilet paraphernalia |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on small covered cylindrical boxes used in classical times for toilet articles. |
| Found in | Hellenistische Tonpyxiden, 1996: p. 3 ('Pyxis' used in Roman times for boxes for various uses) AAT (Pyxides, alt., Pyxis; relatively small, squat, lidded boxlike vessels for holding cosmetics and toilet articles; Pyxes, alt. Pyx; use for Christian liturgical vessels ...) Art index, July 23, 1997 (Pyxides) Bibliog. hist. art (Pyxes; Pyxides) McGraw-Hill art (Pix (pyx, pyxis); small, round box with a lid used in ancient Greece and Rome as a container for toilet articles; term also refers to a liturgical vessel; pixi) Oxford dict. art (Pyxis, pl. pyxides; covered cylindrical box, in Classical times used orig. as a toilet box but adopted by the Church as early as the 4th cent. to hold relics or the reserved Host) Charles, B. Pottery and porcelain, 1974 (pyxis, Greek shape; small, round, lidded box for containing toilet requisites, trinkets, jewellery, etc.) Dict of art (Grove), 1996 (pyxis, ancient vessel form, used to contain cosmetics, oils and perfumes) Random House (pyx 1. Eccles. a. the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept. b. a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick. 2. Also called pyx chest. a box or chest at a mint, in which specimen coins are deposited and reserved for trial by weight and assay; pyxidium, plural pyxidia. Bot. a seed vessel that opens transversely...; pyxis, plural pyxides. 1. Gk. and Rom. Antiq. a box of usually cylindrical shape ... used for toilet articles. 2. pyx, def.1. 3. Bot. a pyxidium; Pyxis, Astron. the Compass, a southern constellation ...) Web. 3 (pyx, plural pyxes. 1. vessel or container used to hold the sacrament. 2. also pix a. box used in the British Mint for sample coins. b. similar box in U.S. mint. 3. a small chest or coffer; pyxis, plural pyxides. Meaning 2a, often cylindrical and decorated covered container used in ancient Greece and Rome (as for the storage of salves and toiletries)) |
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