Epinetron

: epinetra, ἐπίνητρα; "distaff"); Beazley also called them onoi, sg.

[1] Decorated epinetra were placed on the graves of unmarried girls, or dedicated at temples of female deities.

The top surface was often incised to make it rough in order to rub the wool fibers.

Epinetra were often decorated, sometimes depicting black figure Amazon women, as in the case of an epinetron painted by the Sappho painter between 500 and 490 BCE.

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