She was gifted to Prometheus' brother, Epimetheus, and inadvertently unleashed evils from a Greek pithos, or storage jar, that was a wedding present from Zeus. |
Other than the pithos and its lid, no ceramic vessels were clearly being used in the room at the time it was destroyed. |
The pithakne was a pithos of smaller size used for holding wine. |
The other variant is a rather large jar, smaller in size than a pithos, and has a characteristic collar rim and very grittish clay. |
The reused pithos is decorated in relief with a guilloche band and a register of cranes. |