In ancient Egyptian culture, mourning rites are associated with public expressions of emotions. These ritualized emotional manifestations concern the participants of the funerary rites as a whole, but even more specifically the feminine group of “weepers”. Among this group, some distinctive expressions of affliction can be observed: attitudes of sadness supported by particular words, or noisy and clearly organized demonstrative weeps and screams. In the present article, a choice of examples chosen among private ceremonies are examined and put in contrast with collective mourning rites. The symbolic and ritual model proposed in this context by the Osirian myth, as well as the ritual lament of this god, shall also be taken into account.