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Hector’s golden urn

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Canonical name: Hector’s golden urn
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Item
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: The singular urn in which Hector’s gathered bones are buried; distinct from the inherited vessel designated for Patroclus’s and Achilles’s bones.

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Hector’s barrow1 observation

·Direct

Hector’s golden urn was enclosed in the grave beneath Hector’s barrow.

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“gathered his white bones, wrapped them in soft robes of purple, and laid them in a golden urn, which they placed in a grave and covered over with large stones set close together. Then they built a barrow hurriedly over it”

Claims

·Direct

Hector’s bones are wrapped in purple, placed in a golden urn, buried, and covered with stones.

See evidence text

“wrapped them in soft robes of purple, and laid them in a golden urn, which they placed in a grave and covered over with large stones set close together.”

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·Direct

“his brothers and comrades with many a bitter tear gathered his white bones, wrapped them in soft robes of purple, and laid them in a golden urn”