491399 Two Boats with Female Mourners, c.667-647 BC (limestone) by Egyptian, Late Period (715-332 BC); h:58.20 w:91.00 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: Part of the flotilla accompanying the funerary boat. The setting could be either the brief voyage across the Nile to the west bank to the cemetery or the traditional voyage downstream to Abydos, the sacred city of Osiris, where in ealier time final rites for the dead were performed. Both of the boats preserved here are filled with professional female mourners whose task it was to proclaim the virtues of the deceased and to lament his departure. This composition is certainly copied from a lost, probably painted, original of Dynasty XVIII. ); Gift of the Hanna Fund; Egyptian, out of copyright.