TAA i.3.29.2

     Such a prospect as field work in the realms of the hereafter 

would not be uncongenial to a peasant, in fact it ensured him a 

continuance of the life he lived on earth, but it wol/<u>ld present 

a very different aspect to people of higher rank – kings and 

queens, high officials, priests, ladies and the like. Hense^sic in 

their funerary equipment these workers could not be dispensed 

with. Apparently, later, a new terror connected with these 

figures crept in! – what if the deceased met with an enemy in 

the hereafter who rendered them disloyal to him. This possible 

difficulty was obviated by adding to the usual formula the words: 

"Obey him only who made thee, do not obey his enemy."

     Among these funerary statuettes we find single specimens of 

especially fine work, treated almost as portraits in some cases 

as portraits; but although the general standard of workmanship <here>

in/<s> undoubtedly high, they being workers for a king, the mass of 

them have obviously bea/<e>n manufactured by the quantity rather than 

for the quality.