How To Use Mastaba In A Sentence
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And after he had descended upon the ground, he sat a little while upon the mastabah.
Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
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Although a parapet from inside, outside this spoil creates the stub of a wall or 'mastaba' the sitting bench as it has become known in Arab Egypt.
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When they had mounted sixty he knew that they must have come close to the top of the original _mastabah_, and close to the first stage of the pyramid.
Brood of the Witch-Queen
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Opposite the Mastabah was a firepan for pipes and coffee
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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The back of each cupboard is fitted with tiers of little drawers and pigeon-holes, and in front is a kind of matted stone step, called a mastabah, which serves for seat and counter.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Now, Saxonberg, I must tell you about that Egyptian tomb called a mastaba.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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“mastabah” or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Then he arose resolutely from that mastabah, and began to search for us, while we fled from him to the right and left, and he saw us not; for his sight was blinded; but we feared him with a violent fear, and made sure, in that time, of destruction, and despaired of safety.
Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
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One late afternoon I was sitting with friends on their mastaba, the brick bench attached to the front of the house where much of the neighbourhood's socializing takes place.
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Together with his wife Nofret, he was buried in a large mastaba at Medum, where their superb statues were discovered in 1871.
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To the east, three of the king's wives had their own small pyramids, with streets of mastaba - bench-shaped tombs - for his sons and daughters.
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It might also evoke architectural associations, most explicitly an ancient Egyptian mastaba.
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No one admires Emerson's methodology more than I, but in my opinion we have been dawdling over this mastaba longer than we ought.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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No one admires Emerson's methodology more than I, but in my opinion we have been dawdling over this mastaba longer than we ought.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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He then sat a little, and threw himself down, and slept upon that mastabah, making a noise with his throat like that which is made by a lamb or other beast when slaughtered; and he slept uninterruptedly until the morning, when he went his way.
Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
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He roasted him, and ate him upon the mastabah, and ceased not to sleep that night, making a noise with his throat like a slaughtered animal; and when the day came, he arose and went his way, leaving us as usual.
Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
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And there is in Egypt another form of pyramid called the mastaba, which, like the Mexican, was flattened on the top; while in Assyria structures flattened like the Mexican are found.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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mastabah" or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns.
Arabian nights. English
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At first the pharaohs were buried in underground chambers over which were built rectangular mastabas; these were stone structures housing the food and accoutrements the pharaoh would need in the afterlife.
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Indeed, in the violet dusk, the great mastabah Pyramid of Méydûm seemed already to loom above them, although it was quite four miles away.
Brood of the Witch-Queen
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the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba
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But the real features of the Egyptian _serdab_, which was the essential part, the nucleus so to speak, of the _mastaba_, are best preserved in the so-called "holed dolmens" of the Levant, the Caucasus, and India.
The Evolution of the Dragon
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The other wives and attendants tombs were built beside the king's pyramid but were only small rectangular tombs or mastabas.
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At first the pharaohs were buried in underground chambers over which were built rectangular mastabas; these were stone structures housing the food and accoutrements the pharaoh would need in the afterlife.
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mastabah" or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns.
Arabian nights. English
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I pass through a fake mastaba, fashioned after massive structures slaves built above tombs in Saqqara and Giza.
The Memory Palace
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We entered this pavilion, and found in it a wide, open space, like a wide, large court, around which were many lofty doors, and at its upper end was a high and great mastabah.
Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
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A mastaba is a flat-roofed, rectangular tomb with outward-sloping sides.
Egyptology News
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Who could it be other than the grain merchant sitting cross-legged on his bench above the shop's mastaba?
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Sculpted berms here, geometrically-patterned rows of exhaust stacks there, mastaba-shaped radar facility right over there, chalked footpaths everywhere.
Boullée in North Dakota
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It's giving her nightmares of beehive tombs, the subway system as a mastaba, too tight a fit for her.
Texas
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He ate him, and slept upon the mastabah, and the noise from his throat was like thunder.
Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
