Reisner, George Andrew: The development of the Egyptian tomb down to the accession of Cheops (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr. [u.a.], 1936)

TOMB TYPES OF DYNASTY I, SECOND PART (WEDYMUW TO QAY-'A)

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TARKHAN E. MASTABA 2038
f 10*


Fig. 53 : Petrie, Tarkhan, II, pl. XVIII

Measurements:
N-S
E-W
Prop.
Area
Inside (app.)
7-0 m.
4-8 m.
i/i’45
32-6 sq. m.
Wood chamber.
• 3’3 m-
4-85 m.
i/i-5
16-3 sq. m.

Depth: 5-5 m., perhaps deeper than original depth.
Taking the royal tombs as a guide, the c.b. substructure in an open pit is to be expected in large
tombs from the end of the reign of Wedymuw to the end of Dyn. I. The rock-cut pits of Lower Egypt
were sometimes lined with wood only, or perhaps unlined. The number of graves of the type II are