Sentence examples for funerary procession from inspiring English sources
An enormous funerary procession of mourners traveled with Augustus' body from Nola to Rome, and on the day of his burial all public and private businesses closed for the day.
Documents from the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus suggest Herod was buried at the Herodium, laid out on a gold bed draped with opulent fabrics, and thronged by the entire army and a massive funerary procession, said Joseph Patrich, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The rituals of the funerary procession here provide a showcase for the rites of the adherents to a dandy-ish Congolese subculture known as les sapeurs, or Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes (the Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People), forming a kind of resistance, however fashionable, to the pain, grief, oppression, or impoverishment of daily life.
Ancient Roman funerary processions were notable for the parade of ancestors' death masks.
Descriptions of the public realm -- funerary processions, incinerated homes, governmental corruption -- are accompanied by private confessions.
Many depictions of ancient Egyptian funerary processions graphically portray the basic pattern: the embalmed body of the deceased is borne on an ornate sledge, on which sit two mourning women.
It resembled a funeral procession.
"I caught part of the funeral procession.
Thousands marched in her funeral procession.
Decorated reliefs from the upper part of the causeway represent the procession of over 150 personified funerary domains created for the cult of Sahure, demonstrating the existence of a sophisticated economic system associated to the king's funerary cult.
