| 单词 | mastaba |
| 例句 | The names, Sarah, Bruce, Rube, were familiar...Ages ago, in time well outside the mastaba, they had heard these names—in a classroom, on a school bus... From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Middle East mastaba never sees the light of day, the Arc de Triomphe will most likely end up being Christo’s last hurrah. It’s Christo’s Final Show. But Is It the Last We’ll See of Him? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Standing about 65 feet tall and weighing 500 tons, the mastaba will be anchored to one spot but will still bob up and down. Christo to Build Floating Structure in London’s Hyde Park 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Another, a mastaba, or flat-topped pyramid, made of more than 300,000 oil drums, was to be built in Abu Dhabi as Christo’s only permanent large-scale work. Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z He designed a Texas mastaba in 1975, for example, and is devising plans to build a permanent one in Abu Dhabi, which he says will be the largest art structure in the world. Christo to Build Floating Structure in London’s Hyde Park 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z However, Imhotep went beyond this plan and constructed additional smaller stone mastabas, one on top of the other. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z One of its two big monuments, “Complex One,” the very first segment of “City” that Heizer built, can bring to mind an immense mastaba or altar. One visionary artist’s desert dream 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Children, too, go to the mastaba, settle cozily down and read the Koran aloud, interspersing their study with gay conversation. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z The same raking sides are found in all their mastabas, or tombs, sometimes built in unburnt brick and sometimes in stone, in the latter case being simple reproductions of the former. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The main structure of this age is the step-pyramid of Sakkara, which is a mastaba tomb with eleven successive coats of masonry, enlarging it to about 350 by 390 ft. and 200 ft. high. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The Pyramid of Djoser, sometimes called the step pyramid, is composed of six stone mastabas set atop each other, each slightly smaller than the one below. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Their form is generally that of a mastaba or truncated pyramid with sloping walls, and their construction is evidently copied from a fashion of wooden architecture previously existing. Architecture Classic and Early Christian The Egyptian architect had recourse to the same motive, first, in the tombs of the Ancient Empire for the decoration of the chamber walls in the mastabas; secondly, for the relief of great brick surfaces. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 But it may be that these stairway tombs are rather older than those mastabas which have square wells, and it seems best not to group them together. El Kab The Nubian who was stretched out on the mastaba behind it did not trouble to rouse himself. There was a King in Egypt Originally, it was intended to be merely a stone mastaba. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In some respects the least altered copies of the mastaba are found in the so-called "giant's graves" of Sardinia and the "horned cairns" of the British Isles. The Evolution of the Dragon Rudely-sculptured bas-reliefs and intaglios, torn from ancient mastabas, were set over windows and doors, and stone colossi of kings and gods leered and threatened from dusky corners. The False Gods This makes it seem likely that the stairway tombs here at El Kab are earlier in date than the mastabas with square wells. El Kab The walls were decorated with scenes of offerings, and the entire decoration of the tomb converged towards the niche, as that of the mastaba converged towards the stela. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Before the pyramids, tombs and other architectural features were built of mud-brick and called mastabas. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Sorry there's no refreshment at present on my alabaster mastaba, or table of offerings, but you see I didn't prepare for visitors outside my own immediate circle of Ka's and Ba's. It Happened in Egypt But the chief interest of the mastabas lies in the fact that they have preserved to us most of what we possess of early Egyptian sculpture. A History of Greek Art The coarse pottery which lay in heaps over and near the mastabas of the IVth dynasty is identical with that found in some of the small Neolithic graves. El Kab The necessary formulae and pictured scenes were, therefore, reproduced inside, nearly in the same order in which they appear in the mastabas. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt 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 I explained that mastaba was an Arab word meaning bench. It Happened in Egypt There is more variety of pose in the painted bas-reliefs with which the walls of the mastaba chapels are covered. A History of Greek Art In a walk taken one day over the cemetery of Kom el Ahmar, opposite to El Kab, I observed again the same mixture of Old Kingdom and Libyan pottery near a group of mastabas. El Kab The brick mastabas are nearly always of homogeneous construction. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The chambers inside the mastaba, left blank in the plan, were found filled with brick earth; this was cleared out, but nothing save a scrap of IVth dynasty pottery was found. El Kab The brickwork may have been recessed, though this could not be ascertained, as its walls were only two bricks high, and the panelling in the other mastabas does not reach so near the ground. El Kab It is worth remarking, however, that some of these mastabas contain genuine arches, formed of unbaked bricks. A History of Greek Art No. 4 shows a mastaba wall when just excavated. El Kab Many mastabas are from 30 to 40-feet in height, 150 feet in length, and 80 feet in width; while others do not exceed 10 feet in height or 15 feet in length. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt To the west of this is the compound mastaba marked C in the plan. El Kab The mastabas C, Ca, and D were contained in the same boundary wall. El Kab While kings erected pyramids to serve as their tombs, officials of high rank were buried in, or rather under, structures of a different type, now commonly known under the Arabic name of mastabas. A History of Greek Art VII.—The upper of these two sketches by Mr. Clarke shows the two mastabas, C and D, in course of excavation, the great wall of El Kab behind. El Kab In these rock-cut tombs we find all the various parts of the mastaba. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The mastaba D of Nefer-shem-em is of the ordinary type, with two niches on the east, two chambers filled with brick earth, and a central well. El Kab These pots were also found in the passages between mastabas, and fragments of them in very great quantities were scattered over the tombs, especially over those of the “stairway” type. El Kab The mastaba may be described as a block of masonry of limestone or sun-dried brick, oblong in plan, with the sides built "battering," i.e., sloping inward, and with a flat top. A History of Greek Art No. 2 is a copy made by Miss Murray of the lid of a toilette-box found in a mastaba. El Kab In nine cases out of ten, the stone mastabas are but outwardly regular in construction. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Next comes a group of tombs with square wells, and chambers closed by a large block of stone, which tombs are probably mastabas, although the panelled brickwork was not found. El Kab Another majūr lay at the bottom of a well in one of the great groups of mastabas which have been already described. El Kab These tombs have no longer the simple mastaba form, but are either built up of sun-dried brick in the form of a block capped by a pyramid or are excavated in the rock. A History of Greek Art No. 32, a well-known type of black stone cylinder, found in a mastaba with a scrap of diorite, on which the name of Sneferu was scratched. El Kab At Gizeh, the mastabas are distributed according to a symmetrical plan, and ranged in regular streets. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The last three burials were close to the large group of mastabas. El Kab This well was presumably that of the mastaba of which the few patches of brickwork near were the remains. El Kab At El Kab they have been already mentioned as occurring in mastaba wells. El Kab Sketch of a mastaba, and box of ivory and glaze veneer. El Kab Two subsequent systems replaced the mastaba throughout Egypt. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The crucial case at Ballas was the secondary burial of a Libyan found in one of a group of stairway mastabas. El Kab The mastabas were believed to be of the IVth dynasty, because the fragments of pottery and of alabaster bowls found in them were similar to IVth dynasty objects from the cemetery of Medum. El Kab The small late-Libyan graves lay between the mastabas of the time of Sneferu, not interfering with them, or dug through them, giving the impression that all were approximately of the same date. El Kab About thirteen “stairway” tombs and thirty-seven mastabas were examined. El Kab The lower part is a mastaba with a square or oblong rectangular base, the greatest length of the latter being sometimes forty or fifty feet. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The serdab, therefore, was transformed, and combined with the stela of the ancient mastabas. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The step form is the result of carrying upwards the mastaba form, at the same time that it was enlarged outwards. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Plan of chapel, mastaba of Red Scribe 125. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The precise number cannot be given, for when the walls of the mastaba are entirely denuded, and only the well is left, one cannot be sure that the grave was ever of the mastaba form. El Kab Of the pyramidion, scarcely any traces remain; but the mastaba is intact. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The relative proportion of mastaba and pyramid became modified during the succeeding centuries. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The earliest examples of the second kind are those found at Gizeh among the mastabas of the Fourth Dynasty, and these are neither large nor much ornamented. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt |
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