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The water for her bridal bath would have been in a special tall vase called a loutrophoros.
A symbol of her work for the rest of her life was the epinetron - a pottery thigh protector which she wore over her leg when roving wool (getting the wool into rough "sausages" before spinning).
A famous one, in the National Museum at Athens (the Eretria epinetron) has a head and nude torso of a young girl on the end facing away from the user.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/women_vases.htm   (674 words)

  
 The Classics Pages - Athenian Vases: Shapes
The skyphos is often huge - a cup for the serious drinker!
The Epinetron was a thigh-protector used buy a woman when roving the wool - it was to prevent the grease spoiling her clothes.
There were many types of pyxis, which would typically be used for jewellery or small items.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/shapes.htm   (427 words)

  
 ARCL2001: Lecture 8
Red-figure epinetron decorated by the Eretria Painter circa 425 BC.
The epinetron, probably made more commonly in wood than terracotta, fitted over the woman’s knee and thigh in order to provide a working surface for carding wool.
This highly decorated version may perhaps have been intended as a wedding gift and depicts famous women of antiquity.
teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au /archaeology/arcl2001/lecture_8.htm   (753 words)

  
 UC San Diego /All Locations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
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roger.ucsd.edu:2082 /search/a?EretriaPainter,fl.ca.420B.C   (209 words)

  
 My personal blog: Tests, Tests, Tests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
I know we're individual states and all, but dammit, we need some kind of evenness among the states.
I think I did pretty well; I even remembered what the picture was - an epinetron, a thing made of pottery that had pretty pictures on it.
It was made to card (comb) wool, cuz evidently it had a rough top.
craftgirl71683.blogspot.com /2004/10/tests-tests-tests.html   (584 words)

  
 Perseus Vase: Harvard 1960.322   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
There are two suspension holes below the woman's bust.
The Epinetron shape is sometimes mistakenly called an
The name refers to the fact that it was placed on the knee of a seated woman, who would rub wool against its scaly surface to separate the fibers before placing them on the distaff.
www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vaseindex?entry=Harvard+1960.322   (372 words)

  
 Perseus Vase: Athens, NM 1629   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Shape Description: Epinetron with white plastic ornament of female bust
455; C.W. Clairmont, "Bemerkung zum Epinetron des Eretriameisters,""
Eine Interpretation des Bilderkreises an dem Epinetron des Eretriameisters,"
www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vaseindex?lookup=Athens,+NM+1629   (63 words)

  
 artnet.com: Resource Library: Vase painters, §II: Eretria Painter
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He was among the most prolific and original Classical Athenian Red-figure artists and was named after an epinetron from Eretria (Athens, N. Archaeol.
Almost 150 vases painted by him survive, of which about 90 are cups, the rest including various shapes of pots and two epinetra.
www.artnet.com /library/08/0881/T088124.asp   (260 words)

  
 Oxford University Press: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Andrew J. Clark
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United States of America Fascicule 25, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Fascicule 2: Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection: Attic fl-figured oinochoai, lekythoi, pyxides, exaleiptron, epinetron, kyathoi, mastoid cup, skyphoi, cup-skyphos, cups
Previously unpublished Attic fl-figure ware from the Molly and Walter Bareiss collection in the J. Paul Getty Museum is included in this CVA.
www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/ArtArchitecture/History/Ancient/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9MDg5MjM2MTcwMA==   (193 words)

  
 Clothing and Dress for Women in the Art of Ancient Greece
The raw material was held in a spinning basket.
A rough clay semicylinder called an epinetron was used to prepare the wool.
The results of this loom were high quality, as is demonstrated by the results illustrated in vase painting.
www.fjkluth.com /cloth.html   (15847 words)

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