New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 57
FIG. 9. OFFERING-CHAMBER OF THE TOMB OF RA-EM-KAAT SAKKARA. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN THEPROCESS OF ITS REMOVAL A HANDBOOK OF THE EGYPTIAN ROOMS kara, that the relief-sculptures exhibited in this SecondEg>ptian Room come. (3) The serdab or statue-chamber. This was a secret and inaccessible chamberin… … with which the ka or double was supposed to reside(compare photographs of such a statue-chamber inwindow-frame ID. The principal features of the mastaba-tomb heredescribed are illustrated in the model exhibited in thisroom. The origin of this t\pe of tomb dates back tothe I dynasty when it…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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