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 591
bles tomb as he couldafford. The burial shaft would 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 himfrom annoying the living—have appealed…
