. A history of art in ancient Egypt . III. by a brother andsister whose statues were found in it, but it also contained Sebau, son of Menkara,a high official of the time of the Ptolemies, with his wife and all his family (c. iv.). 2 Mariette {Voyage dans la haute Egypte, p. 32) thought that the word Sakkarahwas an ancient name derived from Socharis, a Memphite form of Osiris. The Tomb under the Ancient Empire. 167 has sent us of the tomb of Sabou (Fig. 106). The othermastabas figured by us have all been more or less restored. The mastaba is a massive structure, rectangular on plan, withfour fa
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . III. by a brother andsister whose statues were found in it, but it also contained Sebau, son of Menkara,a high official of the time of the Ptolemies, with his wife and all his family (c. iv.). 2 Mariette {Voyage dans la haute Egypte, p. 32) thought that the word Sakkarahwas an ancient name derived from Socharis, a Memphite form of Osiris. The Tomb under the Ancient Empire. 167 has sent us of the tomb of Sabou (Fig. 106). The othermastabas figured by us have all been more or less restored. The mastaba is a massive structure, rectangular on plan, withfour faces of plain walling, each being inclined at a stated angletowards their common centre. This inclination has led somepeople to assert that it is nothing more than an unfinished an idea is refuted, however, by the fact that the divergencefrom the perpendicular is in some cases so slight that, were thewalls prolonged upwards, their ridges, or aretes, would not meetfor some eight or nine hundred yards. The mastaba might be. Fig. 106.—Actual condition of a mastaba. The tomb of Sabou. Drawn by Bourgoin. more justly compared to the space comprised between two hori-zontal sections of an obelisk, supposing the obelisk to have anoblong base. The major axis of the rectangle upon which these structures areplanned, always runs due north and south, and at the pyramids ofGizeh, the necropolis of the west, they are arranged upon a sym-metrical plan so as to resemble a chess board on which all thesquares are strictly oriented.^ The more carefully built mastabasare oriented according to the true astronomical north. All theothers show the same intention, and, in those instances where anerror of a few degrees is to be discovered, it is to be clearly - The way in which the mastabas were arranged with respect to each other is wellshown in plates xiv. and xviii. of Lepsiuss first volume (map of the pyramidsof Gizeh and panorama taken from the summit of the second pyramid). i68 A Histo
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