mastaba
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- noun
- /mɑːˈstæbə/
- Specialized
- With a large workforce and a rail system to carry away the overburden, "Papa George," as he was known, moved more than 11,000 cartloads of sand and excavated twenty-two mastaba tombs, low rectangular brick or stone structures.
- mastaba tomb
Examples
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On the walls of the queen's burial mastaba, he wrote a poem to her, which is spectacular... - Oh, sir, may I see? - Oh, yes.
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And then they start building what's called mastabas, which is like a, it's like a giant stone Twinkie basically.
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But these mastabas, they would go, OK, they built this huge stone structure so that we can't reach the hole that goes into the ground.
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Thus, none but the priests of Karnak know Kharis' mastaba.
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Called mastabas (Arabic for "bench"), each of these buildings consists of a central room for funerary objects, a burial chamber, and additional rooms.
Academic text (2006) -
Muntazir Rahmat Allah sits 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.
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The ancient Egyptians built a mastaba as a tomb for their pharaohs, featuring a rectangular base and a flat roof.
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Archaeologists discovered several mastabas near the pyramids, each designed with sloping sides made of mud-brick.
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In ancient Egypt, a mastaba served as a tomb, characterized by its low, rectangular structure with a flat top.
Synonyms
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A large stone building or underground room where people put a dead person
An ancient Egyptian tomb with a rectangular base, sloping sides and a flat roof often made of mud bricks
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Etymology
The word mastaba comes from the Arabic mastaba, meaning 'bench'. These early Egyptian tombs looked like low, flat benches, so mastaba now means a rectangular mud-brick tomb with sloping sides and a flat roof.