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N11.2 CHARON & HERMES PSYCHOPOMP

Charon & Hermes Psychopomp | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catalogue No. New York 21.88.17
Beazley Archive No. 212345
Ware Attic Red Figure (White Ground)
Shape Lekythos
Painter Attributed to the Sabouroff Painter
Date -
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Hermes Psychopomp (Guide of the Dead) leads the shade of a youth to the skiff of Charon. The ferryman stands in his boat leaning on a pole. He wears a red chiton and conical workman's cap.

ARTICLES

Charon, Hermes