Upon this the statues were placed, with their backs to the wall.

Attached to each was an oblong block of stone, with a projecting spout on one side; these are known as "tables of offerings" (fig.

110).

The upper face is more or less hollowed, and is often sculptured with bas-relief representations of loaves, joints of beef, libation vases, and other objects usually presented to the dead or to the gods.

Those of King Ameni Entef Amenemhat, at Gizeh, are blocks of red granite more than three feet in length, the top of which is hollowed out in regular rows of cup-holes, each cup-hole being reserved for one particular offering.