. A history of art in ancient Egypt . , sofar, at least, as the former monument is concerned.^ These two B^DEKER, Egypt, part i. 1878. The pages dealing with tlie nionunientalremains were edited in great part by Professor Ebers. The Tomb under the Ancient Empire. 215 sepulchres seem to us to represent a different type of funeraryarchitecture, a type created by the ancient empire, and meritingspecial notice at our hands. The monument which rises so conspicuously from the plain nearthe village of Meidoum on the road to the Fayoum, is called byArabs the Haram-el-Kabbab, or the false pyramid. It i
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . , sofar, at least, as the former monument is concerned.^ These two B^DEKER, Egypt, part i. 1878. The pages dealing with tlie nionunientalremains were edited in great part by Professor Ebers. The Tomb under the Ancient Empire. 215 sepulchres seem to us to represent a different type of funeraryarchitecture, a type created by the ancient empire, and meritingspecial notice at our hands. The monument which rises so conspicuously from the plain nearthe village of Meidoum on the road to the Fayoum, is called byArabs the Haram-el-Kabbab, or the false pyramid. It is, infact, not so much a pyramid, strictly speaking, as a mass formedof three square towers with slightly inclined sides superimposedone upon the other, the second being less in area than the first,and the third than the second. The remains of a fourth storymay be distinguished on the summit of the third ; some see inthem the remains of a small pyramid; others those of a from the names found in the neighbouring mastabas,. FiG. 146,—The Pyramid of Meidoum ; from Perrinsj. which were opened and examined by Mariette, this is the tombof Snefrou I., one of the greatest kings of the third dynasty.^ The Mastabat-el-Faraoun or Seat of Pharaoh, as the Arabscall it, is a huge rectangular mass with sloping sides; it is about66 feet high, 340 long, and 240 deep. It is oriented like thepyramids. It is a royal tomb with internal arrangements whichresemble those in the pyramid of Mycerinus ; the same slopinggalleries, the same chambers, the same great lateral a block lying at the foot of the structure of which ithad once formed a part, Mariette found a quarry-mark traced inred ochre which seemed to him to form part of the name ofOunas, one of the last kings of the fifth dynasty (Figs. 109and 147). ^ P(?iY74,-t (fans la Hai/fc-Egypfe, vol. i. p. 45. 2l6 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. Upon the platform of the Mastabat-el-Faraoun certain blocksare to be found which
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