=Tomb Equipment.=—To describe here in detail all the varieties of objects which may be fittingly grouped under this head is impossible, but the principal requirements of the dead of well-to-do folk may be thus enumerated: =1.= =Coffin=, or coffins, painted and decorated according to the means of the relatives. A fine collection of coffins, which illustrates all the important varieties between B.C. 2600 and A.D. 300 is exhibited in the First and Second Egyptian Rooms. Fine =sarcophagi= in wood and stone will be found in the Second Egyptian Room and in the Southern Egyptian Gallery (see =Plates XVII= and =XVIII=). =2.= A stele, or =sepulchral tablet=, recording the name and pedigree of the deceased, and containing usually a prayer to certain gods for sepulchral offerings (see =Plate XIX=). Examples of almost every kind of sepulchral tablet in stone will be found on the shelves in the Egyptian Galleries, and brightly painted wooden tablets are exhibited in the Third Egyptian Room (Wall-cases Nos. 99-113). =3.= A set of =Canopic Jars= (see above page 160). =4.= A =statue=, or figure, seated or standing, usually inscribed, which was intended to form a dwelling place for the “double” (Ka) of the deceased, and to receive the offerings of his friends and relatives. (See the double statue of Ka-ṭep and Ḥetep-ḥeres from their maṣṭaba at Gîzah, and Third Egyptian Room, Wall-case 99 ff.) =5.= A =ushabti figure=, _i.e._, a figure which was supposed to transform itself into a living man in the Other World at the command of the deceased, and to perform any agricultural work which he might be condemned to do. In some tombs scores of _ushabtiu_ have been found, and when a large number was buried in a tomb, a special box to hold them was provided. (For examples see Second Egyptian Room, Wall-cases Nos. 77-82.) =6.= A =Heart-scarab=, _i.e._, a model of a beetle (of the _Goliath_ species?) usually in hard green stone, which was either inserted in the breast of the deceased, where it was intended to take the place of his heart which had been removed during the process of mummification, or was fastened on the breast over the heart. It was inscribed with the text of Chapter XXXB of the Book of the Dead, in which the deceased prays that his heart may be victorious in the judgment, that no hostile or lying witnesses may appear against him, etc. This prayer is very old, and a Rubric to the LXIVth Chapter proves that it was in existence early in the IVth dynasty. Frequently the heart-scarab was inserted in a rectangular temple-shaped plaque, or pectoral (see Table-case I, in the Fourth Egyptian Room). =7.= A copy of some religious text or texts (=Book of the Dead=), written upon stone, wood, or papyrus. In the Vth dynasty such texts were cut on the walls of pyramid chambers, corridors, etc. In the XIth dynasty they were traced in ink on the stone mummy chambers and on the sides of wooden sarcophagi. (See the coffin of Āmamu in the First Egyptian Room, Case C.) In the