1898.] 



on' the Development of the Tomh in Egypt. 



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is often placed together with her husband on his stele in the false 

 door. One tomb is peculiar for having an annex on the south, with 

 a long chamber but no false doors. The doorway left in the wall 

 between the two is probably merely structural, as both mastabas were 

 filled up solid with gravel. Such annexes occur in other cases, and 

 are as yet unexplained. 



A usual feature of the Xlth and Xllth dynasty mastabas — at 

 least at Dendereh — is to revert to the early type where the passage- 

 chamber opened from the end. In one case there is a mixed form 

 with the front entrance still made, and yet the end open. 



Fig. 11.— 13l■ick^Y0^k tuuuel in tomb of Adu I. 



We now pass from the consideration of the plans of these tombs, 

 in which we have seen every stage of development, from the primi- 

 tive mound with a niche in the side of it, to the elaborate mass of 

 chambers for various funeral purposes, and we turn back to note the 

 development in the sections of the great tombs of the feudal princes. 



The earliest example is one at Medum, where we see the central 

 pit not opening directly into a chamber but into a sloping passage 

 which leads to the chamber. So far we have not found any early 

 tombs (except pyramids) which have a sloping entrance passage, and 

 that type does not seem to have ever been adopted for small tombs, 

 but only for those belonging to rulers. 



