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"On each side, women working wool. Producing cloth for garments and other fabrics needed in a household was a significant task for women. It required special equipment such as a loom and loomweights as well as this utensil, known as an onos or…

Shape: sides widen and then narrows, one loop handle
Materials: clay
Construction: wheel-made
Colour: black
Details: plain bowl, has small flat base from which sides widen outward then the sides narrow, making a ridge and small lip. The handle is…

Materials: clay
Construction: hand-made
Colour: black
Details: has flat base, sides widen to the bely where a ridge is formed as the sides narrow beyond, then the side widens again and gently decreases to the lip. At the point where the sides widen…

Shape: round
Material: clay
Construction: wheel-made
Colour: brown clay, drak brown slip
Details: large size base little height. Dish has large circle in the middle at the bottom and two circles around it. On the inside and outside edge of lip has…

Off white with brown and reddish-brown circls

Beige with a blue design
1 handle

Off white with brown lines and circles

Cypriot vessel with a tri-foil lip.

"A woman in a long sleeved, dotted chiton, a bordered himation, and sandals, with earrings, bracelets, and hair wound into a ball on the neck and fastened with a fillet, standing to right, twisting between the thumb and first finger of her right hand…

One Attic black figure Lekythos.
In two pieces - Pieces do not match.
Ceramic material with black figures and decoration.
One handle.
Details in decoration are picked out with incision.
Main decoration shows rider driving a biga (driver wears a white…

One Attic black figure lekythos.
Ceramic material with black figures and decoration.
Decoration shows horse and rider flanked by three figure, a hare stands under the horse and rider on its hind legs - possibly a hunting scene.
Shoulders are…

Black glazed lamp with raised handle and protruding nozzle. Circular, wheel-thrown body with a concave top and a large filling hole. The rim of the filling hole has a thin raised edge. Tall, vertical loop handle attached at the top of the body. Large…

"On the shoulder, a seated woman, perhaps a goddess, is approached by four youths and eight dancing maidens. On the body, women are making woolen cloth. One of the most important responsibilities of women was the preparation of wool and the weaving…