A type of tomb, of the time of the Memphite dynasties, comprising an oblong structure with sloping sides (sometimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath.
a rectangular bench, and by extension, a mud-brick structure above a tomb of the same rectangular shape
from the Arabic word for "bench," a flat, rectangular, mud-brick tomb with sloping sides, characteristic of Memphite cemeteries, especially in the Old Kingdom
(Arabic) A long, sloping tomb
an ancient Egyptian mudbrick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof; "the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba"
a type of Ancient Egyptian tomb found around the Giza pyramids
(Arabic "bench") an ancient Egyptian tomb, rectangular in shape with a flat roof and (occasionally) sloping sides. The interior is composed of two parts: an underground burial chamber, and ground level rooms above it for the storage of offerings; in Islamic countries, a bench, usually of stone, attached to the exterior of a house.
a type of Egyptian tomb having a rectangular superstructure with exterior walls slightly slanting inward as they rise; contains chapels, chambers, and a shaft leading to an underground burial chamber
Arabic for "bench." An ancient Egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected with the outside by a shaft, which provided the ka with access to the tomb.
The Arabic word for "bench". Used for a type of tomb consisting of subterranean chambers surmounted by a superstructure bearing a bench-like form. Used primarily during the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom.
Arabic: `Bench'. The rectangular superstructure of a tomb, characteristic of the Old Kingdom.
Ancient Egyptian tomb used before the construction of the Pyramids.
The Egyptians didn't become great pyramid builders right away. They started by cutting tombs into the rock of the desert floor and building mastabas (from the Arab word meaning "bench") over them. Mastabas were raised, flat, platforms. Some were as large as twenty-five feet high and two-hundred feet square. Ordinarily a burial chamber was cut into rock below ground level.
Arabic word for bench, like the ones outside of homes. Because of its shape, the term is also used to describe the ancients' low, flat-topped tombs.
A term derived from an Arabic word meaning bench. It denotes a type of tomb with a rectangular brick or stone superstructure with sloping walls surmounting a burial chamber and storage area. This type of tomb was used for royal and non-royal burials.
An Arabic word for bench, it has been applied to early tombs where the building above the ground was a rectangular structure with a flat roof, thereby resembling a bench.
A Pharaonic elevated rectangular tomb with sloping sides. Ar: bench./td
The Arabic word meaning; "bench". Used to describe tombs of the Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom. The basic form resembled a bench.
"bench"; the term used to identify a basic form of Egyptian tomb which includes a burial shaft and room below surface and a slope-sided rectangular mound above (ATA fig. 3-3)
A mastaba was a flat-roofed, mud brick, rectangular building with sloping sides that marked the burial site of many eminent Egyptians of Egypt's ancient period.
