In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, Pandora’s body was fashioned from clay.
Works and Days describes Zeus instructing Hephaestus to mix earth with water and shape a figure resembling a young woman. This clay-making episode links Pandora to a broader ancient Mediterranean idea that humans can be formed from earth by a divine craftsman. The material also emphasizes that Pandora is a constructed being rather than a goddess born from another deity.
The exact wording is sometimes compressed in modern retellings into “made from earth.” Clay is the more specific answer for the fashioned material, because Hesiod describes earth being mixed with water before the figure is shaped.
The scene is distinct from later paintings and poems that portray Pandora rising from a box or jar. Those images dramatize the myth’s aftermath, while Hesiod’s original account first gives attention to the making of Pandora herself and the gifts placed upon her by the gods.