In a group of 401 of these objects commissioned by nobility, 365 of them were overseen by 36 reis and painted with black seshed (“SEH-shed”) bands. Wooden, chapel-shaped itirt boxes contained these objects, whose crude “stick” variant became prevalent in Thebes during the trying times of the Second Intermediate Period. These objects, whose name may derive from the Persea tree, were made to “ferry sand from east to west,” as dictated in Spell (-5[1])472 of the (*) Coffin Texts and Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead. A controversial theory (-5[1])posits that Early Dynastic retainer sacrifices were replaced by these (10[1])objects, (10[1])which (-5[1])became animate in the Field of Reeds to “make arable (10[1])the fields.” For (10[1])10 points, bags of seed, hoes, and picks (-5[1])were held by what Egyptian funerary statuettes acting as servants for the afterlife? ■END■ (10[3]0[5])