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Lekythos (oil flask): Charon
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Charon, the ferryman of the dead, punts his boat over the river Styx. He wears a short black tunic and a traveller’s cap. The water beneath the boat is now a purple-red color but would originally have been blue. Tall reeds surround the boat.
Another, very poorly preserved, figure stands at the other edge of the scene. This might be interpreted as a representation of the deceased person that this vase is intended to commemorate, and who might be thought of as waiting for Charon to carry them over the river to the underworld.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of David M. Robinson
Title: Lekythos (oil flask): Charon
Description:
Charon, the ferryman of the dead, punts his boat over the river Styx.
He wears a short black tunic and a traveller’s cap.
The water beneath the boat is now a purple-red color but would originally have been blue.
Tall reeds surround the boat.
Another, very poorly preserved, figure stands at the other edge of the scene.
This might be interpreted as a representation of the deceased person that this vase is intended to commemorate, and who might be thought of as waiting for Charon to carry them over the river to the underworld.
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