pyxis

• "In one chamber, I found that the bones of the eariler burial had been broken up and placed into a pyxis, a large round vase with a lid." —  Omni: March 1994
• Somtimes the bones were stored in a pithos, a clay storage jar, or a pyxis. —  Omni: March 1994
• 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. —  Homer and His Age
• 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. —  DailyHebrew.com
• 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. —  The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America

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