, many of thembeing nothing more than blind alleys, that the inexperienced visitormay well fancy himself in a maze. The Sakkarah mastabas are built either of stone or brick. The mastabas of stone are of two kinds : those of a very hardblue siliceous limestone and those of a softer chalky… … Fig. ioS.—Restoration of part of the Necropolis of Gizeh. Our general notion of Egyptian architecture would lead us tolook for the use of huge stones in these mastabas, and, in fact,certain important monuments, such as the Mastabat-el-Faraoun,and parts of important monuments, such as the Temple of…
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