Donkey

This animal is frequently depicted on the tomb walls, sometimes in small droves. It was much used as a beast of burden. One picture of an a and her foal shows the creature as heavily laden as one may see them now-a-days. Plutarch states that the a was abhorred by the Egyptians, but nothing has been discovered to corroborate this theory. A chapter in the "Book of the Dead" is curiously named "the Chapter of repulsing the eater of the A ," the accompanying vignettes showing "the eater" to be a serpent.