Aphrodite Venus - Ancient Greek Roman Goddess of Love and Beauty - Ceramic pyxis - Meander design - Handmade in Greece

Item Specifics

Condition: New, Handmade in Greece
Diameter: 9,5 cm - 3,75 inches
Weight: 160 g
Material: clay, paint, ceramic, terracotta

A pyxis is a shape of vessel from the classical world, usually a cylindrical box with a separate lid. Originally mostly used by women to hold cosmetics, trinkets or jewellery, surviving pyxides are mostly Greek pottery, but especially in later periods may be in wood, metal, ivory, or other materials.
Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea.