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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

CHAPTER III
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Of the chapel furniture few traces have been preserved.
The table of offerings, which was of stone, is generally all that remains.
The objects placed in the _serdab_, in the passages, and in the sepulchral chamber, have suffered less from the ravages of time and the hand of man.
During the Ancient Empire, the funerary portrait statues were always immured in the _serdab_.

The sepulchral vault contained, besides the sarcophagus, head-rests of limestone or alabaster; geese carved in stone; sometimes (though rarely) a scribe's palette; generally some terra-cotta vases of various shapes: and lastly a store of food-cereals, and the bones of the victims sacrificed on the day of burial.

Under the Theban Dynasties, the household goods of the dead were richer and more numerous.

The Ka statues of his servants and family, which in former times were placed in the _serdab_ with those of the master, were now consigned to the vault, and made on a smaller scale.

On the other hand, many objects which used to be merely depicted on the walls were now represented by models, or by actual specimens.


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