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mastaba (noun) - An ancient Egyptian tomb rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof
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- A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
- A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions.
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It consisted of a mastaba proper and a wall around it.
Unclear if it was a step pyramid or a giant mastaba.
The mastaba was found heavily destroyed link.
She was buried in the mastaba of her mother.
It is a mastaba with eight burial shafts.
Khamerernebty was buried in the mastaba belonging to her husband.
The mastaba was decorated on the outside with reliefs.
He was buried in a mastaba close to the pyramid.
Painting on the wall of the mastaba.
Around the mastaba there was a wall.
The tomb is a mudbrick mastaba.
The mastaba was a huge burial complex that was found heavily destroyed.
But they have actually tunneled underneath the mastaba.
The mastaba is stone built and the interior offering room is decorated.
Imhotep started by building a tomb in the form of a traditional mastaba.
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The superstructure of the tomb consisted of a mastaba built of limestone blocks.
The mastaba was built of mud bricks and then covered with stones.
Imhotep seems to have first begun building a simple mastaba tomb.
The mastaba contained an interior chapel and an exterior chapel consisting of four rooms.
It is from the mastaba.
The mastaba itself was once pretty large and contained large niches and chapels.
It looked like a mastaba.
The mastaba of Ptahshepses was built in three phases.
The structure was then thought to be a double mastaba and was not excavated very thoroughly.
This fragment can not be clearly attributed to a specific wall of the mastaba either.
Meryteti was buried in the mastaba of his father Mereruka.
The damaged relief fragment can no longer be assigned to a specific wall of the mastaba.
Two subsequent systems replaced the mastaba throughout Egypt.
Their first challenge was to reach the center of the vast stone filled mastaba.
He arranged for her burial in a magnificent mastaba excavated by de Morgan.
The magnificent mastaba is second in size only to that of Mereruka at Saqqara.
The tomb consists of an underground burial chamber and a limestone mastaba above ground.
The construction of the mastaba started during the reign of his father Khufu.
The Dendera necropolis is a series of mastaba tombs.
Two Mastaba residents said that many members of their extended families had died.
The tomb of Kaninisut was a mastaba tomb.
The mastaba was decorated with a palace facade and with scenes showing Siese and his family.
Ptahhotep is mainly known from his mastaba at Saqqara.
The mastaba tombs of Seneb and of Neferi are examples.
The first tomb structure that the Egyptians built was the mastaba.
Note the use of interior space in this limestone mastaba located in a tomb near Giza.
His mastaba was found at Saqqara.
He is known from several sources but mainly from his monumental mastaba at Giza.
Relief from the mastaba of Siese.
The Theban Necropolis was later an important site for mortuary temples and mastaba tombs.
He is mainly known from his mastaba in Saqqara North.
His mastaba is located at Saqqara.
This discipline is called Mastaba.
The Mastaba was the oldest tomb style known in Egypt.
Tomb of Akhethetep his mastaba.
