funeral barge
Floating mortuary transport
A funeral barge is a flat-bottomed boat used to transport a corpse or coffin across water as part of burial rites.
The practice appears across many cultures, from ancient Egyptian royal funerals on the Nile to Viking ship burials.
The image carries strong associations with ceremonial passage to the afterlife: The funeral barge drifted slowly downriver.
- coffinBurial container for remains
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
- pyreFuneral burning heap
- VikingMedieval Nordic raider
- Viking shipNorse seafaring vessel
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Recreational sea voyage
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