There sleeps the mummy in a massive sarcophagus of limestone, red granite, or basalt.
Sometimes, though rarely, the sarcophagus bears the name and titles of the deceased.

Still more rarely, it is decorated with ornamental sculpture.
Some examples are known which reproduce the architectural decoration of an Egyptian house, with its doors and windows.[28] The furniture of the vault is of the simplest character,--some alabaster perfume vases; a few cups into which the priest had poured drops of the various libation liquids offered to the dead; some large red pottery jars for water; a head-rest of wood or alabaster; a scribe's votive palette.

Having laid the mummy in the sarcophagus and cemented the lid, the workmen strewed the floor of the vault with the quarters of oxen and gazelles which had just been sacrificed.

They next carefully walled up the entrance into the passage, and filled the shaft to the top with a mixture of sand, earth, and stone chips.

Being profusely watered, this mass solidified, and became an almost impenetrable body of concrete.