Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway : on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
Ridgeway, William, Sir, 1853-1926, Quiggin, Edmund Crosby, 1875-1920 · Cambridge, [England] : University Press · leaf 569
[Osf ~^ 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. … Fig. 2. 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…