mastaba

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• And there is in Egypt another form of pyramid called the mastaba, which, like the Mexican, was flattened on the top; while in Assyria structures flattened like the Mexican are found. Atlantis : the antediluvian world
• He ate him, and slept upon the mastabah, and the noise from his throat was like thunder. Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
• It's giving her nightmares of beehive tombs, the subway system as a mastaba, too tight a fit for her. Texas
• Sculpted berms here, geometrically-patterned rows of exhaust stacks there, mastaba-shaped radar facility right over there, chalked footpaths everywhere. Boullée in North Dakota
• Who could it be other than the grain merchant sitting cross-legged on his bench above the shop's mastaba?
• A mastaba is a flat-roofed, rectangular tomb with outward-sloping sides. Egyptology News
• We entered this pavilion, and found in it a wide, open space, like a wide, large court, around which were many lofty doors, and at its upper end was a high and great mastabah. Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
• I pass through a fake mastaba, fashioned after massive structures slaves built above tombs in Saqqara and Giza. The Memory Palace
• mastabah" or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns. Arabian nights. English
• At first the pharaohs were buried in underground chambers over which were built rectangular mastabas; these were stone structures housing the food and accoutrements the pharaoh would need in the afterlife.