mastaba is a massive structure, rectangular on plan, withfour faces of plain walling, each being inclined at a stated angletowards their common centre. This inclination has led somepeople to assert that it is nothing more than an unfinished pyramid.Such an idea is refuted, however, by the fact that… … Fig. 106.—.Actual condition of a mastab.i. The tomb of Sabou. Drawn by Bourgoiii. more justly compared to the space comprised between two hori-zontal sections of an obelisk, supposing the obelisk to have anoblong base. The major axis of the rectangle upon which these structures areplanned, always…
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