Thanks to these subtle devices of the ancient craftsman, a tiny statuette of this or that divinity measuring scarcely an inch and a quarter in height, has almost the breadth and dignity of a colossus.
The earthly goods of the gods and of the dead were mostly in solid stone.

I have elsewhere described the little funerary obelisks, the altar bases, the statues, and the tables of offerings found in tombs of the ancient empire.
These tables were made of alabaster and limestone during the Pyramid period, of granite or red sandstone under the Theban kings, and of basalt or serpentine from the time of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.

But the fashions were not canonical, all stones being found at all periods.

Some offering- tables are mere flat discs, or discs very slightly hollowed.

Others are rectangular, and are sculptured in relief with a service of loaves, vases, fruits, and quarters of beef and gazelle.