New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 58
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… … A HANDBOOK OF THE EGYPTIAN ROOMS brick enclosure wall with a gravel filling, erected overa grave to mark its position. 1 hen from the I to theIV dynasties this superstructure develops through sev-eral clearly marked stages, till in the Old Kingdom ithas become a great construction of limestone…
Art -- Egypt · Egypt -- Antiquities
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