a commonfault in these tombs, and not to a difference of intention. Weoften find that the northern face is not strictly parallel to thesouthern, nor that on the west to that on the east. Although not varying much from true orientation, the mastabasof Sakkarah are not arranged with the symmetry… … Fig. 107.—Three mastabas at Gireh. Perspective view, after the pLin of Lepsius.{Denkmnler, vol. i. pi. 24.) It follows that the chess-board arrangement which is so con-spicuous at Gizeh is not here to be noticed. Even at Sakkarahthere were streets between the rows of tombs, but they are so The…
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