Hall 4 of the museum hosts part of a relief pithos discovered during excavations in the city of Chios and dating in the 6th c. BC. It represents a group of women dancing hand in hand, dressed in long chitons with belts. Their dance is reminiscent of the dance decorating the shield that god Hephaestus forged for Achilles, so that he could fight Hector and that Homer describes so vividly in the 18th rhapsody of the Iliad. “And there were young men on it and young girls, sought for their beauty with gifts of oxen, dancing, and holding hands at the wrist. These wore, the maidens long light robes, but the men wore tunics of finespun work and shining softly, touched with olive oil. And the girls wore fair garlands on their heads, while the young men carried golden knives that hung from sword-belts of silver”