Other types of clay figures — of civic officials, servants and court acrobats — were buried nearby.
Five of the graves have been excavated, yielding skeletons of court officials, servants and artisans that appear to have been sacrificed to meet the king's needs in the afterlife.
Over the years, several generations of kings and their queens lived in this complex, with a vast retinue of officials, servants, horses and elephants.
"Now we've had it from the official civil servants it's time the Tories came clean.
She marries Woodrow Sundiata, a minister in the corrupt government of William Tolbert, bears him three children and inhabits a bubble of privilege as the white wife of a high government official, with servants and enough leisure to devote to animal rescue.
The loyalty pledge would be expected to cover elected officials, civil servants, and council workers.
Officials, being servants of the government, are constitutionally obliged to follow its policy and help to execute it.
British officials, their "servants and agents", were "recklessly indifferent to the illegality of their actions", Rahmatullah's lawyers have told the high court.
Hangzhou, the watery city further south to which the dynasty migrated when Kaifeng was sacked by Jurchen nomads from the north in the 1120s, was even richer and bigger: over 1m merchants, artisans, officials, scholars, servants and slaves.
The change is particularly visible in government towns like this one, until recently called Pietersburg, the capital of the Limpopo Province and home to hundreds of black senior officials, civil servants and professionals.
