ABSTRACT
To the same course of development may also be ascribed the beginning of the practice of setting up " graven images" as deities. The Kings of Egypt, for whose sole benefit mummification was originally devised, were regarded (after the IVth Dynasty) as beings of divine descent-Sons of the Sun. The portrait statues set up to each of them as the habitation of the" Ka " was thus itself an embodiment of godhead, and the separation of temple and tomb made it easy for the laymen at least to overlook its representative character, and to come to consider it as a divinity which was in itself a fit object of worship.
