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 In statues, officials often assume the same kinds of poses as do kings and queens (striding, seated, man-and-wife groups). Their individual identities are usually preserved through inscriptions recording the titles and name of the person depicted. Such statues were installed in the offering chapel of a tomb to serve as the focus of rituals and food offerings for the deceased's spirit; or they were placed in a small enclosed chamber, known as a serdab (from the Arabic for "cellar"), to serve as the spirit's final resting place. Family groupings with husband, wife, and children appear frequently in Old Kingdom sculpture. In such groups, scale is often used as an indicator of the individual's status within the family; for example, the husband often appears much larger than his wife and children, and a little boy could be shown as tall as his mother. 
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