Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . le of thepyramid was combined with that of the mastaba ;in the second, the entire tomb, including the chapel,was excavated in the rock. The earliest examples of the first class of thesetombs are to be found in the Theban necropolis of theMiddle Kingdom. The tombs are built of crudebrick, large and black, without any admixture ofstraw or grit. The lower part is a mastaba, eithersquare or oblong in plan, measuring sometimes asmuch as 40 or 50 feet on the longest side. The wallsare
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . le of thepyramid was combined with that of the mastaba ;in the second, the entire tomb, including the chapel,was excavated in the rock. The earliest examples of the first class of thesetombs are to be found in the Theban necropolis of theMiddle Kingdom. The tombs are built of crudebrick, large and black, without any admixture ofstraw or grit. The lower part is a mastaba, eithersquare or oblong in plan, measuring sometimes asmuch as 40 or 50 feet on the longest side. The wallsare perpendicular, and rarely high enough to allow aman to stand upright inside: on this base is a pointed I70 TOMBS. pyramid, which varies from 12 to 30 feet in height, covered on the outsidewith a coat of plaster andpainted white. Owing tothe poor quahty of theground it was impossible toexcavate a burial chamber,and the builders wereforced to conceal it in thebuilding itself. A corbelled vaulting,closely resembling an oven,is frequently to be foundin the centre (fig. 155), andcontains the mummy, but. Fig. 155.—Section of vaultedbrick pyramid, Abydos. more usually the lomb chamber is constructed partly
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