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138 TOMB TYPES OF DYNASTY II
plan of the underground apartments and their floor areas follow the range in size of the mastabas.
The general plan presents a stairway (usually from the north), a portcullis, a wide corridor with side
magazines, a hall with a burial-chamber on the west. In the finest tombs there are other chambers
east of the hall which Quibell identified as rooms for water-jars, latrine, &c., and other rooms south of
the hall which he calls sleeping-apartments. But in the smaller tombs the general plan is reduced to
a simpler scale. These twelve mastabas with rock-cut underground burial-chambers I place with
Quibell in Dyn. II but covering the whole range of the dynasty and perhaps extending into Dyn. III.
These twelve mastabas are as follows:
DESCRIPTION OF SAQQARAH MASTABAS OF TYPE IV A (i) OF DYNASTY II
2-ci. QS 2302: see Quibell, Archaic Mastabas, pl. XXX, p. 30. Tomb of Ruaben; dated by clay sealings
to the reign of Netery-muw, 3rd king of the dynasty, see Fig. 58.
Superstructure: a filled c.b. mastaba with an additional c.b. casing; both the inner and the outer c.b.
casings have two offering niches on the valley side (east), the southern of which is larger and of
the ‘great-door’ type. The chapel is obscure, but was probably of the open-air type.
Measurements: N-S E-W Prop. Area
Overall . . . 58-0 m. 32-64 m. 1/1-77 sq. m-
Substructure: see Fig. 60; excavated in the limestone; stairway descends from valley side as in
Upper Egyptian tombs of Dyn. I and II; length of stairway, 11-93 m.; leads to N-S corridor
blocked by portcullis slab; inside, the corridor leads to ante-room (hall and burial-chamber); out-
side the portcullis, five rooms; inside, eighteen rooms (including hall and burial-chamber):
Measurements:
Floor area:
Relation of floor area to mastaba area: 1/15.
Burial-chamber ....
5-4 sq-m-
Ante-room (hall) .
•
6-67 sq. m.
Eighteen rooms inside portcullis
•
. 65-07 sq. m.
77-14 sq. m.
Area of three corridors connecting .
18-92 sq. m.
Total inside floors .
•
. 96-06 sq. m.
Area of five exterior rooms .
•
14-99 sq. m.
Exterior corridor .
•
•
11-76 sq.m.
26-75 sq. m.
Summary:
Rooms
Corridors
Total
Inside portcullis
77*14
18-92
96-06 sq. m.
Outside portcullis
I4-99
11-76
26-75 sq. m.
Totals
92-13
30-68
122-81 sq. m.
2-cii. QS. 2171: see l.c., pl. XXX and p. 23; dated by sealing of Netery-muw, see Fig. 58.
Superstructure: filled c.b. mastaba with two niches (southern, great-door type, and northern, plain
compound); offering pots under filling.
Measurements: N-S E-W Prop. Area
41-66 m. 18-3 m. 1/2-3 9I3*33 sfl- m
plan of the underground apartments and their floor areas follow the range in size of the mastabas.
The general plan presents a stairway (usually from the north), a portcullis, a wide corridor with side
magazines, a hall with a burial-chamber on the west. In the finest tombs there are other chambers
east of the hall which Quibell identified as rooms for water-jars, latrine, &c., and other rooms south of
the hall which he calls sleeping-apartments. But in the smaller tombs the general plan is reduced to
a simpler scale. These twelve mastabas with rock-cut underground burial-chambers I place with
Quibell in Dyn. II but covering the whole range of the dynasty and perhaps extending into Dyn. III.
These twelve mastabas are as follows:
DESCRIPTION OF SAQQARAH MASTABAS OF TYPE IV A (i) OF DYNASTY II
2-ci. QS 2302: see Quibell, Archaic Mastabas, pl. XXX, p. 30. Tomb of Ruaben; dated by clay sealings
to the reign of Netery-muw, 3rd king of the dynasty, see Fig. 58.
Superstructure: a filled c.b. mastaba with an additional c.b. casing; both the inner and the outer c.b.
casings have two offering niches on the valley side (east), the southern of which is larger and of
the ‘great-door’ type. The chapel is obscure, but was probably of the open-air type.
Measurements: N-S E-W Prop. Area
Overall . . . 58-0 m. 32-64 m. 1/1-77 sq. m-
Substructure: see Fig. 60; excavated in the limestone; stairway descends from valley side as in
Upper Egyptian tombs of Dyn. I and II; length of stairway, 11-93 m.; leads to N-S corridor
blocked by portcullis slab; inside, the corridor leads to ante-room (hall and burial-chamber); out-
side the portcullis, five rooms; inside, eighteen rooms (including hall and burial-chamber):
Measurements:
Floor area:
Relation of floor area to mastaba area: 1/15.
Burial-chamber ....
5-4 sq-m-
Ante-room (hall) .
•
6-67 sq. m.
Eighteen rooms inside portcullis
•
. 65-07 sq. m.
77-14 sq. m.
Area of three corridors connecting .
18-92 sq. m.
Total inside floors .
•
. 96-06 sq. m.
Area of five exterior rooms .
•
14-99 sq. m.
Exterior corridor .
•
•
11-76 sq.m.
26-75 sq. m.
Summary:
Rooms
Corridors
Total
Inside portcullis
77*14
18-92
96-06 sq. m.
Outside portcullis
I4-99
11-76
26-75 sq. m.
Totals
92-13
30-68
122-81 sq. m.
2-cii. QS. 2171: see l.c., pl. XXX and p. 23; dated by sealing of Netery-muw, see Fig. 58.
Superstructure: filled c.b. mastaba with two niches (southern, great-door type, and northern, plain
compound); offering pots under filling.
Measurements: N-S E-W Prop. Area
41-66 m. 18-3 m. 1/2-3 9I3*33 sfl- m