Bier
A bier from Grendon church
A bier is a flat frame, traditionally wooden but sometimes made of other materials, used to carry a corpse for burial in a funeral procession. In antiquity it was often simply a wooden board on which the dead was placed covered with a shroud (cloth used for burial). In modern times, however, the corpse is almost never carried on the bier without being first placed in a coffin, though the coffin is sometimes kept open.
Bier Media
Pope John Paul II lying in state on his funeral bier at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
A bier from Tønder, Denmark
Gilded bier fashioned to resemble the goddess Sekhmet, the fierce lioness who was the protector of the kings in life and death, from the tomb of Tutankhamun, Cairo Museum
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