10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MASTABAH»
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1
The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology - ...
However carefully the outside of the mastabah was built, the inside is composed
of sand, pieces of stone thrown in without design or arrangement, rubble, rubbish
, etc., and but for the outside walls holding all together many of them must have ...
2
Mekal: The God of Beth-Shan
The Courtyard, No. 1072. Internal measurements were 8.40 m. x11.73 to 10.57 m
. It is narrower at the south end like the building as a whole. A low bench or
mastabah c. 50 cm. wide and c. 50 cm. high, ran along both the east and north
sides.
3
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah ...
was obliged to be content, and to pass that day in the common male drawing-
room of the house, a vestibule on the ground floor, called in Egypt a Takhta-bush.
226 Entering, to the left (A) was a large Mastabah, or platform, and at the bottom (
B) ...
In addition to the above chamber, the mastabah contained a second smaller
room, the so-called serd&b, in which the statue of the deceased was hidden. This
serd&b (the word is Arabic and signifies cellar) was -' only separated by a wall
from ...
5
The thousand and one nights: commonly called in England, The ...
In this state he passed by the door of a merchant, the ground before which was
swept and sprinkled, and there the air was temperate ; and by the side of the door
was a wide mastabah. The porter therefore put down his burden upon that ...
Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole, 1865
6
The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, ...
his coming to his master, he said to him, O my master, verily the merchant who
hath taken up his lodging in the house that is haunted by the Jinn is well, in
prosperity, and he is sitting upon the mastabah that is behind the door. So his
master ...
7
Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake
On the evolution of the mastabah tomb, see Troy, "Mummeries," pp. 61-62, and
Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt, pp. 311 -14. 84. Explication of Finnegans Wake
395.22-23. "Going to boat" suggests "going to bed," and also entering the boat of
Ra ...
8
An Account Of The Manners Customs And Of The Modern ...
The shopkeeper generally sits upon the mastabah, unless he be obliged to retire
a little way within his shop to make room for two or more customers, who mount
upon the seat, taking off their shocs before they draw up their feet upon the mat ...
Edward William Lane, Joson Thompson, 1860
9
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
In this state he passed by the door of a merchant, the ground before which was
swept and sprinkled, and there the air was temperate; and by the side of the door
was a wide mastabah. The porter therefore put down his burden upon that ...
10
Taha Husayn: His Place in the Egyptian Literary Renaissance
This mastabah was the Cafe de la Paix, to which students used to go in the first
days of every month, when they felt able to spend without compunction or
constraint. The most marked of Taha. Husayn's stylistic characteristics, and the
one most ...
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