In scenes of everyday life on the walls of tombs such household chores , and also work on the land , are overseen by the deceased man with his wife (if she is shown) standing demurely behind him. Women are, in fact, greatly outnumbered by men in the decoration of tombs, most of which were constructed for men. They appear most frequently in funeral rites as mourners with conventional gestures of grief (3.10) and in banqueting scenes relatives or musicians, fully dressed or as dancing girls wearing only necklaces and girdles round their slender hips (3.4). (Nakedness indicated low social status.) In these paintings, married couples are always together, husbands in front of wives (3.6).