epinetron
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thumb|The base of an epinetron from Athens, depicting a lion and a [[pegasus]] The epinetron (, : epinetra, ἐπίνητρα; "distaff"); Beazley also called them onoi, : onos) was a shape of Attic pottery worn on the thighs of women during the preparation of wool, not unlike a thimble for the thigh. Decorated epinetra were placed on the graves of unmarried girls, or dedicated at temples of female deities.
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thumb|The base of an epinetron from Athens, depicting a lion and a [[pegasus]] The epinetron (, : epinetra, ἐπίνητρα; "distaff"); Beazley also called them onoi, : onos) was a shape of Attic pottery worn on the thighs of women during the preparation of wool, not unlike a thimble for the thigh. Decorated epinetra were placed on the graves of unmarried girls, or dedicated at temples of female deities.
Because of the strong association between wool-working and the Ancient Greek ideal of women and wives—as in the case of Penelope weaving in the Odyssey—it is a shape associated with the wedding.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “epinetron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.