ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF POLYGNOTOS, CIRCA 440-420 B.C.

The scene presented here is centered by a woman working wool. She is seated on a klismos, in profile to the right, pulling out a skein of wool from her kalathos (basket). She works it into thinner yard with her fingers and feeds it into a second kalathos. She is flanked by two draped women, the one to the left holds a mirror in her hand and to the right ties a cord around her chiton beneath her breasts. To keep the kolpos (overfold) out of the way, she holds the garment in her teeth. A fillet hangs in the field above. For a similar scene of a woman working wool on a hydria by the Clio Painter at the British Museum (inv. no. E215), see Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 214529.