 Lower-class citizens used common forms of funerary art—including "shabti" figurines (to perform any labor that might be required of the dead person in the afterlife), models of the scarab beetle and funerary texts—which they believed would protect them in the afterlife.During the Middle Kingdom, miniature wooden or clay models depicting scenes from everyday life became popular additions to tombs.In an attempt to duplicate the activities of the living in the afterlife, these models show laborers, houses, boats and even military formations which are scale representations of the ideal ancient Egyptian afterlife.