You see that the dead man was provided with all his ordinary comforts: provisions, furniture, the ink-palette that he had been accustomed to use in writing on papyri, and a staff of servants to wait on him." "Where are the servants ?" I asked.
"The little Ushabti figures," she answered; "they were the attendants of the dead, you know, his servants in the under-world.

It was a quaint idea, wasn't it?
But it was all very complete and consistent, and quite reasonable, too, if once one accepts the belief in the persistence of the individual apart from the body." "Yes," I agreed, "and that is the only fair way to judge a religious system, by taking the main beliefs for granted.

But what a business it must have been, bringing all these things from Egypt to London." "It was worth the trouble, though, for it is a fine and instructive collection.

And the work is all very good of its kind.

You notice that the Ushabti figures and the heads that form the stoppers of the Canopic jars are quite finely modelled.