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Hector’s barrow

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Hector’s barrow
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The stable funeral mound built over Hector’s grave and ashes.

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Hector’s golden urnItem1 observation
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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

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Trojans hurriedly build Hector’s barrow while guards watch against attack.

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Then they built a barrow hurriedly over it keeping guard on every side lest the Achaeans should attack them before they had finished.

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they placed in a grave and covered over with large stones set close together. Then they built a barrow hurriedly over it

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Book 24 · Passage 55

Forthwith they yoked their oxen and mules and gathered together before the city. Nine days long did they bring in great heaps of wood, and on the morning of the tenth day with many tears they took brave Hector forth, laid his dead body upon the summit of the pile, and set the fire thereto. Then when the child of morning, rosy-fingered dawn, appeared on the eleventh day, the people again assembled, round the pyre of mighty Hector. When they were got together, they first quenched the fire with wine wherever it was burning, and then 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, which they placed in a grave and covered over with large stones set close together. Then they built a barrow hurriedly over it keeping guard on every side lest the Achaeans should attack them before they had finished. When they had heaped up the barrow they went back again into the city, and being well assembled they held high feast in the house of Priam their king.