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Classical Period Attic Red Figure on Lekythos. Detail of Kharon figure. In the full vase Hermes psychopompos (guide of the dead) leads the shade of a youth to the skiff of Kharon. The ferryman stands leaning on his pole.
Kharon (Χαρων) was the ferryman of the dead. When someone would die, their relatives would place two coins on the eyes of the recently deceased to pay Kharon to ferry the dead across the Akheron River.
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Red Figure Attic Vase Detail of Kharon figure. Kharon drives his skiff with a pole. Painted on a white-ground funerary vase.
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