Four women in a domestic setting; a tainia (headband) hangs behind them

Tripod pyxis with lid
100. Tripod pyxis with lid
Painter of London E777 (Greek, Attic)
Four women in a domestic setting; a tainia (headband) hangs behind them
Clay, red-figure, ca. 440 BCE
Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard
Photograph courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery
1913.153a-b

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