Miniature offering table from Kaiara Kot, Las Bela. Terracotta model of a house. From Egypt12th Dynasty, around 1900 BC Tomb offering with a courtyard filled with food offerings In ancient Egypt, rich tomb owners included wooden models of servants preparing food among their burial goods.
They were seen to provide sustenance for the Afterlife. The equivalent in poorer burials was the 'soul house', a model house, often with both a ground level and a roof-top courtyard. The houses were often quite crudely made and schematic, but give some idea of what the dwelling of a poorer person would have looked like.