the essential parts of thisritual date back as far as the Memphite period. These statuettes are of different sizes and materials. As a rulethey do not exceed from eight to twelve inches, but there are afew which are three feet or more in height. Some are inwood, some in limestone, and some in… … Fig. 94.—Labourers heaping up ears of corn, from a tomb at Gizeh. (Description dt I&gypu:) upon the breast and hold instruments of agriculture such as hoesand picks, and a sack meant for grain hangs from their shoulders.The meaning of all this is to be sought in the Egyptian notionsof a future…
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![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu21egyp-91-134.webp)
