A Final Goodbye

This unique representation of a funerary procession on a stela grants insights into the involvement of family members and friends of the deceased in the funeral. The words of advice found in an ancient Egyptian instruction text seem very fitting here: Do not celebrate without your neighbours, so they will attend to mourning you, on the day of burial.A. McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs (Oxford, 1999), 142-143).