Pyxis?

Upper part missing; edge of foot chipped.

Projecting foot; slightly concave underside. Concave wall.

Pronounced nipple on floor. Hard, fine, very micaceous, gray/light gray fabric with uneven break (10YR 6/1); hard, shiny black-to-gray glaze.

For a similar piece, probably Attic, see 1338. For a rare late saltcellar of similar shape see 1743, from layer over Sullan debris nearby (G 13). Of somewhat similar shape, and also in gray ware, is a vessel from a grave of the 2nd to 1st century B.C. in Heraclea (South Italy; Giardino 1990, p. 121, pl. XXV:G). Cf. also a partially preserved gray-ware vessel from Pergamon with appliqué decoration (PF VII, nos. 9, 172, pp. 186, 196--197, fig. 25, pl. 35).