In the Isthmus of Suez, at Ahnas el Medineh, in the Fayum, at Asuan, and in Nubia, we find whole cemeteries in which the sarcophagi are made of baked clay.

Some are like oblong boxes rounded at each end, with a saddle-back lid.

Some are in human form, but barbarous in style, the heads being surmounted by a pudding-shaped imitation of the ancient Egyptian head-dress, and the features indicated by two or three strokes of the modelling tool or the thumb.

Two little lumps of clay stuck awkwardly upon the breast indicate the coffin of a woman.

Even in these last days of Egyptian civilisation, it was only the coarsest objects which were left of the natural hue of the baked clay.