mastaba

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Originally, it was intended to be merely a stone mastaba.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

One of its two big monuments, “Complex One,” the very first segment of “City” that Heizer built, can bring to mind an immense mastaba or altar.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2022

Another, a mastaba, or flat-topped pyramid, made of more than 300,000 oil drums, was to be built in Abu Dhabi as Christo’s only permanent large-scale work.

From New York Times • May 31, 2020

Osiris' body parts are ceramic fragments scattered at the base, each wired by bright copper cable to his ka, or soul, at the summit of the mastaba, represented by a circuit board.

From Time Magazine Archive

The names, Sarah, Bruce, Rube, were familiar...Ages ago, in time well outside the mastaba, they had heard these names—in a classroom, on a school bus...

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg