The people of his household comport themselves before him as becomes their business and station.

His wife either stands beside him, sits on the same chair or on a second chair by his side, or squats beside his feet as during his lifetime.

His son, if a child at the time when the statue was ordered, is represented in the garb of infancy; or with the bearing and equipment proper to his position, if a man.

The slaves bruise the corn, the cellarers tar the wine jars, the hired mourners weep and tear their hair.

His little social world followed the Egyptian to his tomb, the duties of his attendants being prescribed for them after death, just as they had been prescribed for them during life.
And the kind of influence which the religious conception of the soul exercised over the art of the sculptor did not end here.