Terracotta kalathos (vase in the shape of a wool basket)
Unknown · ca. 325–300 BCE · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, USA
This vase copies the flared shape of a kalathos, the basket Greek women kept their wool in. Homer lingers over Helen’s version in Book 4 — hers is silver, running on little wheels, paired with a golden distaff of soft violet wool — brought out beside her as sh