Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
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Fig. I. Plan of a Protodynastic Mastaba.The stairway (j) may be in either ofthe situations indicated, i.e. on thenorth or the side facing: the Nile. … Fis Diagram of a section ofsuch a mastaba. was floored with beaten mud. Sometimes the whole areaoccupied by the mastaba was encircled within the en-closing wall. It formed a sort of courtyard whichprevented encroachment of other tombs on the mastabaitself and intrusion on the ceremonies of…
