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Sloping passage with rock-cut chamber:

(21) Northern Peribolus tomb: rock-cut chamber and sloping passage from the north: see Mackay, l.c.,
p. 12, pl. IX.


1:1 so


Fig. 107. Petrie, Medum, pl. VII.


Total: Sloping passage Tombs:

Chamber: flat roof, stone slabs, sloping corridor usually constructed in trench:
Nos. 2-6, 8-12, 15, 18 . . . . . . . . . .12
Ditto: with rectangular shaft, No. 7. ........ 1
Chambers with corbel roof, sloping passage: Nos. 17, 19 (sloping passage not re-
corded), 20 ............ 3
Chambers with uncertain roofing: Nos. 1, 13, 14 ...... 3
Chamber without entrance roofed with cylindrical c.b. vault: No. 16 . . . 1
Chamber, rock-cut, flat roof: No. 21 ........ 1

Total 21
Shaft tombs with built or lined chambers (for references see under Medum superstructures) :
(22) No. 6, Rahotep: see Fig. 107; corbel-roofed chamber and passage; grooved shaft lined with c.b.;
horizontal corridor with flat roof, opening high up in north wall of chamber; canopic niche
high up in SE corner.
Measurements:
Chamber: 2-7x2 m.; area, 5-4 sq. m.
Shaft: 2-5xi-5 m.
Niche: 1-75x0-7 m.