In one instance--the offering- table of Situ--the libations, instead of running off, fell into a square basin which is marked off in divisions, showing the height of the Nile at the different seasons of the year in the reservoirs of Memphis; namely, twenty-five cubits in summer during the inundation, twenty-three in autumn and early winter, and twenty-two at the close of winter and in spring-time.
In these various patterns there was little beauty; yet one offering-table, found at Sakkarah, is a real work of art.

It is of alabaster.

Two lions, standing side by side, support a sloping, rectangular tablet, whence the libation ran off by a small channel into a vase placed between the tails of the lions.

The alabaster geese found at Lisht are not without artistic merit.

They are cut length-wise down the middle, and hollowed out, in the fashion of a box.