In theory, there should be two doors, one for the dead, the other for the living.

In practice, the entrance for the dead was a mere niche, high and narrow, cut in the eastward face, near the north-east corner.

At the back of this niche are marked vertical lines, framing in a closed space.
Even this imitation of a door was sometimes omitted, and the soul was left to manage as best it might.

The door of the living was made more or less important, according to the greater or less development of the chamber to which it led.

The chamber and door are in some cases represented by only a shallow recess decorated with a stela and a table of offerings (fig.