Mastaba

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An ancient Egyptian tomb with a rectangular base, sloping sides, and a flat roof.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
  • n. A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • In Mohammedan countries, a fixed seat, common in dwellings and in public places.
  • A type of tomb, of the time of the Memphite dynasties, comprising an oblong structure with sloping sides (sometimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The earliest form of Egyptian tomb, a building oblong or square in plan and having sloping sides and a flat roof. It covers the sepulchral pit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof
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    mastabah   
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    tomb    grave   
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