Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 261
masonry of the tomb. For this recess an unimportantstele, with or without inscription, is occasionally substituted, or (2)we find, at a few metres distance from the south-eastern angle,either a deeper, larger, and more carefully built recess, in thedepths of which a monolithic stele of white… … Fig. III.—l-intel of the tomb of Teta, 6th dynasty. Louvre. ends there. It has no internal chamber, or rather, the recess actsas substitute for one. But when, instead of the niche or recess,we meet with a door, we then know that we have come upon aregularly completed tomb. The name of its…
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