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

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TOMB TYPES OF DYNASTY III

Height of chamber: 1-9 m.
Burial-chamber: 2-9 m. (N-S) (excluding end niche) by 1-7 m. wide (E-W), making an area
of 4-9 sq. m.
Length of inclined trench from surface of rock to pit: 49-5 m.
Depth to floor of entrance to pit: 21-0 m.

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The subsidiary apartments consist of a number of galleries and rooms, some of them filled
with stone vessels, and some of them lined with white limestone, decorated with inset blue
faience tiles. One long room has three niches, each with relief, showing a figure of the king.
But the general character of the subsidiary galleries and rooms has a resemblance to the under-
ground galleries of the large mastabas of Dyn. II at Memphis.
On the eastern side of the burial chamber, at a lower level than the apartments just