MASTABA

măsˈtəbə, in Egyptian architecture, a sepulchral structure built aboveground. The mastabas of the early dynastic period (3200–2680 b.c.), such as those of the I dynasty at Sakkara, were elaborate, having many storage or offering compartments, and were quite evidently close copies of contemporary houses. Better known are the mastabas of the Old Kingdom (2680–2181 b.c.), which were an elaboration of the predynastic burial-pit and mound form. The typical mastaba was generally rectangular in plan with a flat roof and inward-sloping walls, built of brick and faced with limestone slabs.

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books on: Mastaba  - 146 results

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Egyptian Architecture as Cultural Expression
Book by E. Baldwin Smith; D. Appleton-Century, 1938
Subjects: Architecture--Egypt
...Abydos Tombs; Early Middle-Class Graves; Mastaba Tomb; Orientation; Vault ing; Modifications in the Mastaba. The Temple...DYNASTIC TOMBS 85 The Mastaba: Old Kingdom; Middle Kingdom. The Pyramid...
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Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I
Book by Naguib Kanawati; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Conspiracies--Egypt--History--To 1500, Egypt--Antiquities, Egypt--History--To 332 B.C, Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt
...where the pyramid of his father and the mastaba of his father-in-law were found and where...kings son Unisankh, owner of the large mastaba opposite that of Unis queen, Nebet? Was...appears not just in the mere size of their mastabas but in the multiplicity of rooms in their...
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The Pyramids of Egypt
Book by I. E. S. Edwards; Penguin Books, 1955
Subjects: Pyramids
...15 I MASTABAS 35...5. . Tiled panelling in the South Mastaba--a reconstruction. Sakkara. From C...17 2. The Mastaba of King Aha at Sakkara. After W. B. Emery...
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Who's Who in Ancient Egypt
Book by Michael Rice; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Egypt--History--To 332 B.C--Biography
...of the Two Lands massive brick-built mastabas house the bodies of the Great Ones...palaces. Then, in the Old Kingdom, the mastabas are stone-built and the kings and some...the invariable decoration of the great mastaba tombs built in mud-brick, a very un...
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Early Dynastic Egypt
Book by Toby A. H. Wilkinson; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Egypt--History--To 332 B.C
...1.2 Mastaba K1 at Belt Khallaf 6...Beit Khallaf he excavated several huge mastabas of mudbrick Plate 1.2 , also dated to...the seal-impressions. One of these, from mastaba K2, shows the name of King Sanakht opposite...
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Christo's Wrapped Reichstag: Globalized Art in a National Context
Journal article by Beatrice Hanssen; Germanic Review, Vol. 73, 1998
Subjects: Germanic Philology
...architecture, simulating primitive architecture. Having installed a mastaba (or Egyptian tomb) in the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary...the Texas project fell through, it was converted into The Mastaba of Abu Dabi, Project for the United Arab Emirates , meant...
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Mapping the Labyrinth: The Ur-Anathemata of David Jones
Journal article by Tom Goldpaugh; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 51, 1999
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jones, David--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Labyrinths--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Space and time in literature--Analysis
...first insertion the speaker asks --and does the stone mastaba cairn the negotiator...lithosphere" (RQ 38; Ms. 66H14), the text returns to the stone mastaba it left fourteen pages earlier. As the...
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Studies in Human Psyche and Human Behavior under Political and Social Pressure: The Recent Literary Works of Fu'ad Al-Takarli
Journal article by Wiebke Walther; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 19, 1997
Subjects: Authors, Arab--Works, al-Takarli, Fu'ad--Works
...in an armchair to the left of this rock while five of his neighbors sit willfully and vexedly on the right side of it on a mastaba, a wooden bench. According to the stage directions, they must fall down to the ground when speaking after every rigorous motion...
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Die Konigsmutter Des Alten Agypten Von der Fruhzeit Bis Zum Ende der 12. Dynastie
Journal article by Lana Troy; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Die Konigsmutter des Alten Agypten von der Fruhzeit bis zum Ende der 12. Dynastie (Book)--Book reviews
...richness of the text is illustrated by the concluding excursus, taking up the possibility that Neithhotep, owner of the Nagada mastaba, otherwise identified as an early consort and royal mother, was, rather, the son of Aha. The titulary, iconography, and functions...
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Books Received
Journal article; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
...Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. Pp. ix + 246, CD-ROM. euro68. CASTEL, GEORGES, and LAURE PANTALACCI. Les cimetieres est ou ouest du mastaba de Khentika. Fouilles de lIFAO, vol. 52. Cairo: Institut francais dArcheologie Orientale, 2005. Pp. vi + 584, 45 plates, illus...
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magazine articles on: Mastaba  - 7 results

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Rachel Whitehead
Magazine article by Jean-Pierre Criqui; Artforum International, Vol. 33, November 1994
Subjects: Whiteread, Rachel--Works
...middle-class house, evoked a mausoleum, a kind of Egyptian mastaba. In the same way, Ether, 1990, the plaster cast of an old iron...Table and Chair (Green), both 1994, suggest something of the mastaba, which was so striking in House, and this despite the restrained...
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Letter from Egypt: "There Is a Question," Our Correspondent Writes, "That Less-Sophisticated Americans Ask (and More-Sophisticated Americans Would like To): Why Are People in the Middle East So Crazy? Here, at the Pyramids, Was an Answer from the Earliest Days of Civilization: People Have Always Been Crazy."
Magazine article by P.J. O'Rourke; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, September 2002
Subjects: Americans--Behavior, Egypt, Egyptians--Behavior, Historic sites, International relations--Media coverage, Israelis--Political activity, Middle East--Politics and government, Muslims--Behavior, Palestinian Arabs--Political activity
...stuff. We went into the tomb of Mereruka, son-in-law of Pharaoh Teti, who reigned from 2355 to 2343 B.C. This tomb was a mastaba, a flat-roofed stone building, with thirty-three rooms. Peter claimed that only royals were allowed to depict the gods in their...
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Views of Ancient Egypt
Magazine article by Linda Downs, Carla Brenner; School Arts, Vol. 98, October 1998
Subjects: Egypt--Antiquities, Egyptology--History
...tomb chambers were soon vandalized. Later pharaohs then hid their tombs in natural rocks or underground in what are called mastaba tombs. The propylaeum, or pylon, is a large wall used at the entrance to temples and palaces. In some periods in Egypt the...
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Anselm Kiefer
Magazine article by David Frankel; Artforum International, Vol. 36, May 1998
Subjects: Kiefer, Anselm--Exhibitions, Painters--Exhibitions
...to be monumental and ancient yet is neither. The structures inspiring both the pyramid in Your Age and Mine and the massive mastaba-like piles in the other paintings are in fact contemporary and not that big, and they have no symbolic or memorial role, for...
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Grand Gesture
Magazine article by Catherine Slessor; The Architectural Review, Vol. 198, July 1995
Subjects: Bibliotheque Nationale--Design and construction, France--Buildings, facilities, etc., Libraries--Design and construction
...be ascended to locate the escalators at each end of the podium. These transport visitors down into the inner realms of the mastaba beginning with two floors of public reading rooms and increasing in scholarly sanctity the deeper you go. The lowest floor...
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newspaper articles on: Mastaba  - 2 results

 
 
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Mysteries
Newspaper article by Judith Kreiner; The Washington Times, June 9, 1996
...trouble when we find the archaeologist is digging around a mastaba tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Ouch! A surprising amount...could not be bothered to do his research. He misplaces the mastaba style of burial by a significant number of centuries and miles...
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Christo Uncovered
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, February 2, 2002
...issues of ownership, demonstrations and revolutions Christo continued using oil barrels for a recent project, "Abu Dhabi Mastaba, Project for United Arab Emirates," begun in 1977, and in progress. The artists made its form (piled-up oil barrels) and content...


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encyclopedia articles on: Mastaba  - 5 results

 
 
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Mastaba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MASTABA mas t b , in Egyptian architecture, a sepulchral structure built aboveground. The mastabas of the early dynastic period (3200 2680 b.c.), such as...close copies of contemporary houses. Better known are the mastabas of the Old Kingdom (2680 2181 b.c.), which were an elaboration...
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Sohag
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...industries include ginned cotton and silk weaving. Two Coptic monasteries are there. Nearby is Bayt Khallaf, the site of a mastaba built under King Zoser (III dynasty). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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Tomb
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...spirit was often served by heaping stones above the grave. This may have been the initial structure that gave rise to the mastaba and later to the pyramid of Egypt. Such heaps of stones also served as markers or shrines where offerings might be left...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The extensive Egyptian collection has objects dating from 30,000 b.c. to a.d. 641 and architectural monuments including the mastaba of Perneb (erected c.2460 b.c.) and the Temple of Dendur (c.15 b.c.). There also are fine collections of Middle Eastern and...
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Egyptian Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Kingdom, 1570 1085 b.c. Old Kingdom remains are almost entirely sepulchral, chiefly the tombs of monarchs and nobles. The mastaba is the oldest remaining form of sepulcher; it is a rectangular, flat-roofed structure with sloping walls containing chambers...


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