mastaba

1 The Egyptian architect had recourse to the same motive, first, in the tombs of the Ancient Empire for the decoration of the chamber walls in the mastabas; secondly, for the relief of great brick surfaces.

2 If the Middle East mastaba never sees the light of day, the Arc de Triomphe will most likely end up being Christo’s last hurrah.

3 But the chief interest of the mastabas lies in the fact that they have preserved to us most of what we possess of early Egyptian sculpture.

4 To the west of this is the compound mastaba marked C in the plan.

5 The mastabas C, Ca, and D were contained in the same boundary wall.

6 The brick mastabas are nearly always of homogeneous construction.

7 The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude pose in front of an image representing the future work 'The mastaba of Abu Dhabi,' on July 20, 2007 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France.

8 In some respects the least altered copies of the mastaba are found in the so-called "giant's graves" of Sardinia and the "horned cairns" of the British Isles.

9 Christo has long been interested in mastabas, trapezoidal structures that originated in Mesopotamia.

10 The tomb, known as a mastaba, was found in the pyramid necropolis of Dahshur, about 25 miles south of Cairo, during a recent Egyptian-German archaeological mission.

11 No. 32, a well-known type of black stone cylinder, found in a mastaba with a scrap of diorite, on which the name of Sneferu was scratched.

12 It is worth remarking, however, that some of these mastabas contain genuine arches, formed of unbaked bricks.

13 The necessary formulae and pictured scenes were, therefore, reproduced inside, nearly in the same order in which they appear in the mastabas.

14 The crucial case at Ballas was the secondary burial of a Libyan found in one of a group of stairway mastabas.

15 The chambers inside the mastaba, left blank in the plan, were found filled with brick earth; this was cleared out, but nothing save a scrap of IVth dynasty pottery was found.

16 Many mastabas are from 30 to 40-feet in height, 150 feet in length, and 80 feet in width; while others do not exceed 10 feet in height or 15 feet in length.

17 Next comes a group of tombs with square wells, and chambers closed by a large block of stone, which tombs are probably mastabas, although the panelled brickwork was not found.

18 The Pyramid of Djoser, sometimes called the step pyramid, is composed of six stone mastabas set atop each other, each slightly smaller than the one below.

19 At Gizeh, the mastabas are distributed according to a symmetrical plan, and ranged in regular streets.

20 Their form is generally that of a mastaba or truncated pyramid with sloping walls, and their construction is evidently copied from a fashion of wooden architecture previously existing.

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