Images on the pyxis usually depict the marriage procession from a young girl's house to that of her new husband.

But analysts said Pyxis would immediately add to Cardinal's earnings.

To date the pyxis of al-Mughira's purpose is still speculated and debated.

The named 'cosmetic vessel' in Ancient Greece is the pyxis.

Erasmus, however, translated pithos into the Latin word pyxis, meaning "box".

The pyxis of al-Mughira is a masterwork of the genre.

It is possible the pyxis was originally inlayed with gold and silver but only traces of jade remain.

His name vase is pyxis in the Louvre (Paris).

Pyxis Corp., 4 million common shares.

Cardinal gets $1 billion more from service units, including Pyxis automated drug dispensers, and management contracts at 400 hospital pharmacies.

The actual purpose of the pyxis of al-Mughira is highly argued and unanimously unknown.

Erasmus rendered pithos as the Greek pyxis, meaning "box".

If it is the upper part of the capsule that dehisces, the capsule is also called a pyxis.

Two brokerage firms lowered their ratings for Pyxis, a manufacturer of software for hospitals, a day after it announced disappointing earnings.

She is to take a box (pyxis) and obtain in it a dose of the beauty of Proserpina, queen of the underworld.

Pyxis (Cardinal Health)

Pyxis Mobile Inc. was founded in 1998 as a company that developed PalmPilot apps for financial services companies.

Six years later, the retailer again changed hands, this time acquired by Pyxis Real Estate Equities Inc.

The exterior of the pyxis is elaborately carved and incised elephant ivory, imported by the caliph from North Africa.

Spider tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides)

It adjoins Vela and Pyxis, and is always very low as seen from Britain; part of it does not rise at all.

The pointed pyxis didn't last much longer than the ninth century BCE, while the flat-bottomed continued into the late Geometric.

There are also seven loutrophoroi, five lekythoi, one pyxis and one cup discovered that have been determined to be the work of the Kleophon Painter.

There is an ivory pyxis containing a contemporary chalice and paten in the treasury of the Cathedral of Braga.

Ken Turner, market development manager for Sony's Personal Information Products division, said Pyxis was a recreational product.

This style is used especially on pyxides and cups.

They, too, mainly painted pyxides and oinochoai with animal friezes.

The containers included aryballoi, alabastra, pyxides and other small specialized shapes.

He then went on to create canthares, aquamaniles, rhytons, pyxides and animal figures.

Apart from bowls, askoi, pyxides and small lebetes gamikoi were also painted.

The plural is pyxides.

The best works of the Late Classical period are often found on smaller vessels, such as belly lekythoi, pyxides and oinochai.

Oil flasks (alabastra, aryballos), pyxides, kraters, oenochoes and cups were the most common vessels painted.

Boeotian potters especially liked to produce molded vases, as well as kantharos with sculptured additions and tripod pyxides.

In the early phase, large vessels like chalice kraters and hydriai were painted, but smaller vessels like flasks, lekanes, lekythoi and skyphoid pyxides are more typical.

In most cases this was a hybrid form between a kantharos and a skyphos with a deep bowl and vertical ring handles, but there were also lebes, cups and pyxides.

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.

The leading shape is the neck amphora, providing about a quarter of all known Chalcidian vases, followed by Eye-cups, oinochoai and hydriai; rarer shapes include kraters, skyphoi and pyxides.

The favourite shapes of Meidias Painter and his followers were hydriai amongst the larger forms and squat lekythoi, choes and a variety of pyxides and lekanides preferred for smaller pieces.

Among the vases made or decorated by him are belly amphorae, Type A cups, calyx craters, Little master cups, Siana cups, dinoi, pyxides, and at least one Panathenaic amphora.

Also from EM IIA are the cylindrical and spherical pyxides called Fine Gray Ware or just Gray Ware, featuring a polished surface with incised diagonals, dots, rings and semicircles.

In Epiros, graves and funerary chests yielded gold danakes along with kantharoi, lamps, pyxides, figurines, gold rings, gold oak leaves, iron strigils, a bone flute, fragments of funerary stelae and a marble head of a young man.