Thus we find miniature funeral boats, with crew, mummy, mourners, and friends complete; imitation bread-offerings of baked clay, erroneously called "funerary cones," stamped with the name of the deceased; bunches of grapes in glazed ware; and limestone moulds wherewith the deceased was supposed to make pottery models of oxen, birds, and fish, which should answer the purpose of fish, flesh, and fowl.

Toilet and kitchen utensils, arms, and instruments of music abound.

These are mostly broken--piously slain, in order that their souls should go hence to wait upon the soul of the dead man in the next world.

Little statuettes in stone, wood, and enamel--blue, green, and white--are placed by hundreds, and even by thousands, with these piles of furniture, arms, and provisions.
Properly speaking, they are reduced _serdab_-statues, destined, like their larger predecessors, to serve as bodies for the Double, and (by a later conception) for the Soul.

They were at first represented clothed like the individual whose name they bore.