Funerary urn
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
urn · burden · small urn · tiny urn · vessel
in the texts
Suppliants
The small urn in which a child carries his father's gathered ashes back to his mother.
Poor mother mine, behold I bring my father’s bones gathered from the fire, a burden grief has rendered heavy, though this tiny urn contains my all.
Electra
The funerary urn is a deceptive object represented as containing Orestes' ashes, provoking Electra's lament and enabling the plot.
At the hands of strangers, poor Orestes, you have been tended, and so have come to us, a small bulk in a small urn.
If your tears are for any of Orestes’ tribulations, know that this vessel is his body’s home.
Here, at last, my eyes look for certain, it seems, upon that grievous burden in your hand.