Cerberus from BL Lansdowne 728, f. 160v

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Cerberus from BL Lansdowne 728, f. 160v

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Drawing of the three-headed dog Cerberus, a standing queen pointing to the entrance to the inferno, and below in a boat, the ferryman labelled 'Charon' reaches into the water towards people swimming (or drowning?), in Thomas Walsingham's Archana Deorum. Image taken from f. 160v of Archana deorum (a commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses), with index. Written in Latin.

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1300 - 1500
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British Library
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