Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastabahs
Literary usage of Mastabahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman (1894)
"In the most simple mastabahs this false door, on which the name of the deceased
... These chambers represent the great scientific value of the mastabahs, ..."
2. The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1908)
"In general, it has two mastabahs, one higher than the other, cased with marble
like the pavement. The higher accommodates but one person ; and is for the ..."
3. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians: Written in by Edward William Lane (1871)
"... the first of the warm apartments; but it is less warm than the principal
apartment, of which it is the ante-chamber. In general, it has two mastabahs, ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1902)
"They were built in imitation of mastabahs or primitive Egyptian houses, or tombs
placed upon one another, thus making terraces, but before they were ..."
5. The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called in England, The Arabian Nights by Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole (1865)
"They then walked a little way, and destiny cast them among the gardens, and they
came to a place which they found swept and sprinkled, with long mastabahs, ..."
6. Life of Edward William Lane by Stanley Lane-Poole (1877)
"The reason for pulling down or altering the mastabahs is to afford more room for
the passengers, and particularly for the Basha's carriages, and for carts ..."
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