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The Mastabat al-Fir'aun (Arabic: مصطبة الفرعون Romanised: Maṣṭabat al-Firʿawn), also referred to in Egyptological literature as the Mastaba el-Faraun, Mastabat el-Faraun or Mastabat Faraun, and meaning "Bench of the Pharaoh") is the grave monument of the ancient Egyptian king Shepseskaf (reign c. 2510–2503 BC), the last king of the Fourth Dynasty documented to date.
The above ground part of the superstructure has fallen apart and very little of it remains. Most of the excavating that was done was with the underground level of the mastaba. The section of the stairway, leading into the tomb is the only remaining part of the above ground section. The superstructure is not the same as traditional mastabas.
Example of a mastaba, the Mastabat al-Fir'aun of Shepseskaf. A mastaba (/ ˈ m æ s t ə b ə / MASS-tə-bə, [1] / ˈ m ɑː s t ɑː b ɑː / MAHSS-tah-bah or / m ɑː ˈ s t ɑː b ɑː / mahss-TAH-bah), also mastabah or mastabat) is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with inward sloping sides, constructed out of mudbricks or limestone.
Double-Mastaba: The mastaba had 7 burial shafts. G 7148 +7149: Double-Mastaba: The mastaba had 5 burial shafts. G 7150: Stone-Mastaba: Khufukhaf II and his wife Khentkaues: Khentkaues is a King's daughter of his body: Dynasty V (time of Nyuserre Ini) Possibly a son of Khufukhaf I. G 7152: Stone-Mastaba: Sekhemankhptah: Late V or Dynasty VI: G ...
The ancient Egyptian site of el-Lisht can be found on the west bank of the Nile River, around 65 km south of the city of Cairo. It is a Twelfth Dynasty necropolis, close to the city of Itj-Tawy [1] from which the modern village assumably (given the proposed older form Al-Isht) takes name.
The Mastaba of Kaninisut (or Ka-ni-nisut ['"KҘ(j)-nj-nśw.t"]), [2] or Mastaba G 2155, is an ancient Egyptian mastaba tomb, located at the West field of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The cult chamber of the mastaba is now on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna with inventory number 8006.
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Sabu's grave was discovered on January 19, 1936, by the British archaeologist Walter Bryan Emery.It is a mastaba tomb that consists of seven chambers. In Room E, the central burial chamber, the disk was found in a central location right next to Sabu's skeleton, which was originally buried in a wooden coffin. [4]