The figures rest on a thin black ground-line cutting off an exergue left empty.Įxterior: (a) Scene in the palaestra (?). Hephaestos wears a somewhat scanty himation, and holds in his left hanging at his side a hammer his hair is short at the back, but has the ends passed over the ears and confined with a gilded fillet. The aegis is decorated with a diaper pattern instead of scales.

Athene on the left wears a long chiton tied up at the waist with a girdle, the ends of which fall in front under the upper fold of the chiton round her shoulders is the aegis fringed with snakes and set with Gorgoneion on the breast. She looks to the left and wears a long sleeved chiton undertied and decorated with stars her hair falls loose on her shoulders, confined with a fillet, which apparently Hephaestos has just placed there Athene appears to be fastening the chiton of Pandora on her shoulders. In the centre Pandora (also known as Anesidora) stands en face, in a stiff attitude like an archaic xoanon (wooden cult image), with feet together and hands at sides with each hand she raises slightly an edge of her drapery over her is inscribed her name, Pottery: red-figured cup, with white ground.

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