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 Sepulchral Architecture 147 to divine the part attributed to them by the popular imagination. They answered to the name traced upon the tomb and acted as sub- stitute for its tenant in the cultivation of the subterranean reeionsJ With the help of the attendants painted and sculptured upon the 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 ^ PiETSCHMAXN {Dev Egyptische Fetisclidietist, &c., p. 155), has well grasped the character and significance of these statuettes. Conf. Pierret, Dictiotinaire cT Arche- ologie egyptietine, 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 Siir une Tablette appartenant a M. Rogers. {Reaieilde TraTau vol. ii. p. 12.)