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Sepulchral Architecture

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to divine the part attributed to them by the popular imagination. They answered to the name traced upon the tomb and acted as substitute for its tenant in the cultivation of the subterranean regions.^[1] With the help of the attendants painted and sculptured upon the

Fig.Figs. 95, 96.—Sepulchral statuettes, from the Louvre.

walls they saved him from fatigue and from the chance of want. This is another branch of the same old idea. In his desire to take

↑ PITSCHMANN (Der Egyptische Fetischdienst, &c., p. 155), has well grasped the character and significance of these statuettes. Conf. Pierret, Dictionnaire d' Archéologie egyptienne, vol. v. See also, in connection with the personality attributed to them and to the services which were expected from them, a note by M. Maspero Sur une Tablette appartenant à M. Rogers. (Recueil deTravaux, vol. ii. p. 12.)

[1] PITSCHMANN (Der Egyptische Fetischdienst, &c., p. 155), has well grasped the character and significance of these statuettes. Conf. Pierret, Dictionnaire d' Archéologie egyptienne, vol. v. See also, in connection with the personality attributed to them and to the services which were expected from them, a note by M. Maspero Sur une Tablette appartenant à M. Rogers. (Recueil deTravaux, vol. ii. p. 12.)

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