It is otherwise with the first image, which really represents the soul as it was imagined by the Egyptians. We have sculptured figures and drawings (fig. 9) showing the little soul perched by the sarcophagus, touching the mummy, and bidding it farewell before rising to the gods.[28] In other scenes the soul is depicted as it comes flying from heaven with the sign of life in its hand, and approaching the grave to visit the mummy; or as flying down into the vault with the offerings which it had found at the door of the tomb, bringing bread in one hand and a jar of water in the other, as food and drink for the body which once invested it (fig. 10). This conception of the soul as a kind of bird is noteworthy when compared with the ideas which other nations have formed of it. The Greeks sometimes represented the εἴδωλον, or soul, as a small winged human figure (fig. 11); in Roman times it was imagined as a butterfly (fig. 12); and in mediæval reliefs and pictures we see it leaving the mouth of the dead man as a child (fig. 13), or a little naked man.[29] The latter form recalls that of the Egyptian KA, although the idea which it embodies reminds one rather of the BA. [Illustration: Fig. 11.—The placing of the dead in the tomb by Thanatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep). The small winged figure represents the dead man’s soul. (From a _lekythos_ published by M. C. POTTIER in his _Étude sur les Lecythes Blancs Attiques_. The εἴδωλον was usually painted black.)] [Illustration: Fig. 12.—Scene from a sculptured sarcophagus of the third century a.d., in the Capitoline Museum, Rome. To the left, below the chariot of Selene and the draped figure of Night, lies the dead body of the man, whose soul hovers above him as a butterfly beside the inverted torch of the pensive winged boy representing either Sleep or Death. Fate sits with open scroll at the dead man’s head, and above her his soul is again represented as a Psyche, carried away by Hermes. (See BOTTARI, _Musée Capitoline_, vol. iv., pl. xxv. Cf. also many representations of Amor and Psyche in ancient art, showing Psyche—the soul—sometimes as a winged figure and sometimes as a butterfly.)] [Illustration: Fig. 13.—The soul of a man leaving him at his death in the form of a naked child, and received by an angel. (_From the porch of the cathedral church of St. Trophimus, at Arles._)]