Statuette of Kha

Whoever closed Kha's burial chamber arranged part of it as a scene. In the middle of the room, right in front of his outer coffin, stood the tomb's only high-backed chair, painted with flowers and with inscriptions wishing his spirit every good and pure thing. On a cloth spread over the seat stood this wooden figure, with tiny garlands around its shoulders and at its feet. A shabti, the servant figure meant to work for the dead, leaned against the chair back, and a miniature coffin held a second one with model tools. The museum reads the group as an image of Kha himself, seated and receiving offerings.

The statuette shows him young, striding, in a kilt. The column of text down the front asks that his ka, his life force, receive everything that appears on the offering table of Amun, king of the gods. Figures like this are generally missing from the robbed tombs of the elite of that time, perhaps because theirs were made of precious metal and taken.