mastaba

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Turkish - Turkish
(Osmanlı Dönemi) (C.: Masâtıb) Sedir, peyke
Cami, medrese, han, saray gibi yapılarda kapının yanlarında bulunan taş ya da ahşap seki
English - English
A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions

The pyramids at Giza are flanked by large cemetaries containing hundreds of mastabas.

A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East

A wooden shutter which closes down at night-time, and by day two palm-stick stools intensely dirty and full of fleas, occupying the place of the Mastabah or earthern bench, which accomodated purchasers, complete the furniture of my preceptor's establishment.

(Arabic "bench") 1 an ancient Egyptian tomb, rectangular in shape with a flat roof and (occasionally) sloping sides The interior is composed of two parts: an underground burial chamber, and ground level rooms above it for the storage of offerings; 2 in Islamic countries, a bench, usually of stone, attached to the exterior of a house
Arabic word, meaning “bench” used to designate the private tombs of the Old Kingdom whose superstructure bears a bench-like form
[arch] Egyptian; Tomb from which a shaft leads to an underground burial chamber
Arabic for "bench " An ancient Egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected with the outside by a shaft, which provided the ka with access to the tomb
(Arabic: "bench") A type of rectangular tomb common for wealthy private burials from the Old Kingdom onward, and so called from the similarity of their shape to the squat stone or mudbrick benches commonly found outside Egyptian rural houses
Old Kingdom, underground tomb with above ground structure
An Arabic word for bench, it has been applied to early tombs where the building above the ground was a rectangular structure with a flat roof, thereby resembling a bench
a type of Egyptian tomb having a rectangular superstructure with exterior walls slightly slanting inward as they rise; contains chapels, chambers, and a shaft leading to an underground burial chamber
In Mohammedan countries, a fixed seat, common in dwellings and in public places
A type of tomb, of the time of the Memphite dynasties, comprising an oblong structure with sloping sides (sometimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath
from the Arabic for "bench," a type of Old Kingdom tomb; rectangular, with sloping sides and a flat roof, it often had many rooms, including an offering chapel and a subterranean burial chamber
an ancient Egyptian mudbrick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof; "the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba
(Arabic: "bench") Rectangular superstructure of ancient Egyptian tombs, built of mud brick or, later, stone, with sloping walls and a flat roof. A deep shaft descended to the underground burial chamber. Old Kingdom mastabas were used chiefly for nonroyal burials. Storage chambers were stocked with food and equipment, and walls were often decorated with scenes showing the deceased's expected daily activities. What had earlier been a niche on the side grew into a chapel with an offering table and a false door through which the spirit of the deceased could leave and enter the burial chamber
an ancient Egyptian mudbrick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof; "the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba"

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mastabas
plural of mastaba
mastaba

    Hyphenation

    mas·ta·ba

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    [ 'mas-t&-b& ] (noun.) 1882. From Arabic مِصْطَبَة (misTabat, “bench”).
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