Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
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s quite conclusive evidence (7, p. 88) that both kinds oftomb were made by the same people. When the rect-angular serdab-\.ovc^ chamber was not roofed with stone ALGERIAN MASTABAS 531 slabs, corbel vaulting—another Egyptian invention—wasemployed. Many varieties of analogously degraded… … Fig. 13. Plan of an Algerian mastaba-lik.e superstructure. This is a regular stone 7nastaha^ in which the burialchamber communicates with the entrance to the tomb inthe place, which in my scheme (Figure 8) I regardedas homologous with the serdab. As in so many of theEgyptian mastabas^ the whole…
