The pious care of his relatives multiplied these bodies, and consequently multiplied the supports of the Double.

A single body represented a single chance of existence for the Double; twenty bodies represented twenty such chances.

For the same reason, statues also of his wife, his children, and his servants were placed with the statues of the deceased, the servants being modelled in the act of performing their domestic duties, such as grinding corn, kneading dough, and applying a coat of pitch to the inside surfaces of wine-jars.

As for the figures which were merely painted on the walls of the chapel, they detached themselves, and assumed material bodies inside the _serdab_.

Notwithstanding these precautions, all possible means were taken to guard the remains of the fleshly body from natural decay and the depredations of the spoiler.