140 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. of its materia], it would have every chance of lasting as long as the world itself. But, unhappily for the shade of Pharaoh, this posthumous existence which is so difficult of comprehension to us, was only to be prolonged by attention to conditions most of which could not lonor continue to be observed. ^ ' A: i li'i 1 1 IL 7? f nii^-^i V' i/J ill .,1^1, ^vlJ A, ' f hi — 11 "^ 1 V ,'•11 1 M. "i; JAJ"i / V c]^. U:^ .^ Fig. 90. — Stele of Nefer-oun. Boulak. It was entirely a material life. The dead-alive had need of food and drink, which he obtained from supplies placed beside him in the tomb,^ and afterwards, when these were consumed, by the ' Jars, which seem to have been once filled with water, are found in many tombs of all epochs. Different kinds of dates are also found, together with the fruit of
