In Greek mythology, Hephaestus gives Pandora a golden crown during her creation. Hesiod’s Works and Days describes the divine gifts and adornments that make Pandora beautiful and ready to enter the human world.
Hephaestus is best known as the Olympian smith, so the golden crown fits his craft-based role. The creation scene distributes different attributes among several gods: Athena teaches skills, Aphrodite contributes beauty, and Hermes supplies a deceptive character and speech. The exact details vary among translations and retellings, but the crown is associated with Hephaestus in Hesiod’s account.
This episode is separate from the myth’s later association with the jar. Pandora’s appearance is assembled before she is presented to Epimetheus, and the gifts are part of Zeus’s punishment for humanity after Prometheus’s theft of fire. The story’s “all-gifted” name refers to this collective divine endowment.