More time was devoted later to comparing these artifacts with others that have similar functions which can be found in other museums in the world. At the moment of writing these notes, the “stola” from Leiden will be compared with those kept in the following museums: British Museum (London), Petrie Museum (University of London), Liverpool Museum and Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK), and possibly others as the research reaches completion.

As for the need of these researches, there are two different factors to be considered. Firstly, these artifacts are rapidly deteriorating, as can be seen from the actual photo and the drawings done more than a century ago, and they will be impossible to study any further in less than one hundred years (figs. 3 a-c .4a-b). Secondly, we continue forgetting who we are, where we came from, as well as how previous cultures were able to live in harmony with nature. For ancient Egyptians, nature and its forms were their gods as their lives depended on the Nile River and its fertilizing inundation. Even their dead relatives were buried far from the agricultural land, which was precious and needed for the living ones. It still remains a lesson to be learnt in these modern times marked by extreme heat and devastating thunderstorms.