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Definition of Mastabas

Mastaba
Mastaba Mas"ta*ba, n. Also Mastabah Mas"ta*bah . [Ar. ma[,c]tabah a large stone bench.] 1. In Mohammedan countries, a fixed seat, common in dwellings and in public places. 2. (Egyptology) A type of tomb, of the time of the Memphite dynasties, comprising an oblong structure with sloping sides (sometimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath.

Meaning of Mastabas from wikipedia

- built from mudbricks. Monumental mastabas, such as those at Saqqara, were often constructed out of limestone. Mastabas were often about four times as long...
- Khafraanch's mastabas G 7948 is located in a zone Eastern necropolis of Giza on extrema east ridge of necropolis behind a row of G 7000 mastabas, dated to...
- arrangement of the individual mastabas indicates that they were constructed altogether. Apparently the completed mastabas were handed over undecorated...
- The Mastaba of Ti is one of the most important archaeological sites of Saqqara. The mastaba was discovered by Auguste Mariette. The mastaba contains two...
- two sons: Rekhuef (II) and Pehernefer, both also known from their own mastabas. Ziegler, Adam, Andreu-Lanoë 2007, pp. 24-25 Ziegler, Adam, Andreu-Lanoë...
- contains several stone-built mastabas dating from as late as the 6th Dynasty. Tombs from the time of Menkaure include the mastabas of the royal chamberlain...
- One), the pyramid of Djedefre (also known as Radjedef) and around fifty mastabas (located one and a half kilometres from Djedefre’s pyramid). The excavation...
- Retrieved 25 May 2021. Burial customs: mastabas. Archived 17 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine Burial customs: mastabas. University College London (2001) Retrieved...
- The Mastaba of Seshemnefer IV is a mastaba tomb in Cemetery GIS of the Giza Necropolis in Egypt. It dates from the early Sixth Dynasty (c. 2340 BC), and...
- Khufu are characterised by ordered rows of type-like mastabas, especially visible behind the mastaba of Hemiuna G 4000.In designing the cemetery for Khufu...