Who could it be other than the grain merchant sitting cross-legged on his bench above the shop's mastaba? |
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It might also evoke architectural associations, most explicitly an ancient Egyptian mastaba. |
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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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The mastaba, a huge rectangular structure over an underground chamber, became the preferred burial structure for nobility in the Second Dynasty. |
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It consists of a mastaba and a grave that is severely damaged and the top tomb stone is fragmented. |
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At the time of the Joint Mission, two large foundations for a building planned to be added to the mastaba were being dug. |
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A new mosque has been built near the mastaba to accommodate visitors during praying time. |
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In ancient Egypt the mastaba was a special kind of tomb where mourners made offerings at the symbolic door. |
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In the mastaba of Mereruka, a vizier of Teti, first king of the 6th dynasty, there were 21 rooms for his own funerary purposes, with six for his wife and five for his son. |
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The term mastaba was first used archaeologically in the 19th century by workmen on Auguste Mariette's excavation at Ṣaqqārah to describe the rectangular, flat-topped stone superstructures of tombs. |
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The tombstone and the mastaba urgently require conservation intervention. |
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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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A CDD statement said 8 people were wounded in a four-vehicle crash that occurred in Mastaba area in Jerash governorate. |
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It's hoped the 325-million-dollar Mastaba sculpture will become a landmark for the region. |
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