Pixida (toilet box)

Pixids (toilet boxes) were made from different materials and used to store perfumes and small items. Pixida, found in Kalmykia, is made of yellow bone with gray inclusions, its surface is polished. Pixida has a bone bottom, which is tightly inserted into the body. The bottom is decorated around the circumference with a mortise line, in the center of the bottom from the inside and outside there are points-recesses - traces of attachment to the lathe on which it was turned. The pixel cover is composite, made of a profiled ring and a die tightly inserted into it. A ledge is carved in the upper part, decorated around the circumference with a recessed line. On the outside, the lid has four lines with a recess in the center; the lines form a kind of three ring-shaped protrusions, two protrusions are in the center of the lid, one is near its edge.
The functional purpose of the exhibit: toilet boxes, widely used in ancient times, imports from ancient cities of the Northern Black Sea region.
Uniqueness: a rare find for the Sarmatian burials of the Volga-Don interfluve. It has a number of analogues made of bone or wood, originating both from ancient settlements and burial complexes of the Northern Black Sea region and other regions, as well as from a number of burials of the Sarmatian aristocracy.