1898." 



on the Development of the Tomh in Egypt. 



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front is regularly formed with an entrance door, and it covers sixteen 

 false doors along the front of the mastaba. The chamber has been 

 lengthened out greatly. No serdab is to be seen, as that apparently 

 was a Memphite feature unknown in the upper country. And the pit 

 is long in order to allow of a coffin being lowered at full length with 

 the body inside it. 



Much the same construction appears in the large mastaba of Prince 

 Mena of the Vlth dynasty at Dendereh. Two pits appear there ; that 

 nearest the front leads to the funeral chamber lying behind the offer- 

 ing chamber. The further pit led to another chamber containing 

 pottery, and was doubtless for the offerings. How this was reached 

 is seen at the right hand, where a door from outside leads into a court- 

 yard with a bench along two sides of it. From this court a flight of 

 steps led on to the top of the mastaba ; the blank part beyond the 

 steps having been covered with their continuation upward, now de- 

 nuded away. The squares across which the shading is carried are 



Fig. 9. — Plan of tomb of Seker-kha-bau at Saqqara. 



merely construction cells left hollow in the brickwork, and filled up 

 with gravel. 



The tomb was further elaborated by the addition of courts and 

 chambers in front of the true mastaba. In the tomb of Nenkheftka 

 at Saqqara, the chamber, its false door, and its serdab, with a slit 

 through which the statue might receive its incense, are all within the 

 mastaba. Subsequently three chambers were added on the front of 

 the mastaba, to serve as an introduction to the rest. 



This is seen further developed in the tomb of Ty at Saqqara, 

 where the chamber has two false doors (for Ty and his wife), a serdab 

 on the left of it, with three slits for censing the statues. A new 

 supplementary chamber appears to the right of it. The front is 

 enclosed so as to form a passage, in which is a false door as in other 

 examples noticed. The new feature is a large court prefixed to this 

 passage, containing twelve pillars, and approached by a porch with 

 two pillars (see Fig. 10). 



