called byArabs the Haram-el-Kabbab, or the false pyramid. It is, infact, not so much a pyramid, strictly speaking, as a mass formedof three square towers with slightly inclined sides superimposedone upon the other, the second being less in area than the first,and the third than the second. The… … Fig. 146—The Pyramid of Meidoum ; from Perrins;. which were opened and examined by ]\Iariette, this is the tombof Snefrou I., one of the greatest kings of the third dynasty.^ The Mastabat-el-Faraoun or Seat of Pharaoh, as the Arabscall it, is a huge rectangular mass with sloping sides ; it is…
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