mastaba

mas·ta·ba also mas·ta·bah  (mst-b) n. An ancient Egyptian tomb with a rectangular base, sloping sides, and a flat roof. [Arabic maabba, stone bench, from Aramaic misubb, perhaps of Persian or Greek origin.]

mastaba top: exterior viewbottom: cross section revealing the shaft (A) and the burial chamber (B)

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mastaba, mastabah [ˈmæstəbə]

n

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a mudbrick superstructure above tombs in ancient Egypt from which the pyramid developed

[from Arabic: bench]

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mastaba - an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof; "the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba" mastabah tomb, grave - a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"