Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . ncel i f eh ? Form of pyramids). r. , thefamous German Egyptologist, these different layers or crusts, like thein the trunk of a tree, perhaps corresponded to thenumber of years during which the deceased monarch reigned. Besidesamids of the usual regular form [Fig. [. a), there are othersrith sides forming an obtuse angle, and others again with si ??amid w ithbent sides i here is an example at Dahshur i the pyramid in Bteps one at Sakkara l fig. I. c). or Btep, form seems, however, to
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . ncel i f eh ? Form of pyramids). r. , thefamous German Egyptologist, these different layers or crusts, like thein the trunk of a tree, perhaps corresponded to thenumber of years during which the deceased monarch reigned. Besidesamids of the usual regular form [Fig. [. a), there are othersrith sides forming an obtuse angle, and others again with si ??amid w ithbent sides i here is an example at Dahshur i the pyramid in Bteps one at Sakkara l fig. I. c). or Btep, form seems, however, to have been uniformly i all the pj ram ids up to the apex I which was probably tapered |. Of them the angles formed by the steps were afterwards ie. There can now be no reasonable doubt that ? ? nded to form the inaccessible tombs of great mon&ri bicb their courtiers and magnates erected mortuary , HISTORY OF ART. 159 chapels for themselves (Mastaba) in the form
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