Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
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les tomb as he couldafford. The burial shaft v/ould be shallower, reachingin some cases not even to the solid rock. If in a foreignland he perhaps could not secure skilled labour to con-struct a proper shaft. The size of the mastaba itselfwould no doubt be also conditioned by his means.Probably—and… … Fig. 7. A diagram representing in section the hypotheticalfirst stage of degradation of the mastaba. that had become intimately associated with the serdab^as the place inhabited by the spirit of the dead man—in other words the part of the tomb that kept him from annoying the living—have appealed…
