The classic Egyptian funerary statue depicted the deceased with a staff in one hand, and the sekhem in the other.
The museum's notable collection of funerary statues and grave stelae ranging from the 7th to the 1st century BC form the bulk of the collection.
Among its many exhibits, there are funerary statues and other items from the island of Rhenia, the burial ground for the inhabitants of Delos.
He commissions a funerary statue, and provides grave gifts from his treasury to ensure that Enkidu has a favourable reception in the realm of the dead.
This work owes a clear debt to Michelangelo, who had designed the tomb and funerary statues for Catherine's father at the Medici chapels in Florence.
The funerary statues are plain when placed next to the glittering treasures of the boy King Tutankhamen.
The stiffness of the characters gives us no clue as to the model's position: are they levitating, or are we in the presence of recumbent funerary statues?
The tomb consisted of an antechamber, two offering rooms and a serdab which contained the funerary statue of the princess.
It is quite historical for a blockbuster, short on gold and long on elegant funerary statues.
There was one funerary statue in the Museum of African Art I grew particularly attached to.