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MEIDUM:
The enormous mastaba

The mastaba next to the pyramid of Snefru is one of the most impressive of all of Egypt. It is a superstructure, perhaps recreating a holy mountain or a raised underground, containing numerous independent graves. Later mastabas were individual graves.

Its wall are more slanting than usual with mastabas. The only mastaba of a measurable scale, the Mastaba of al-Faraoun in South Saqqara, has near-vertical walls. The slanting walls may have been a reflection of the shape of the pyramid.

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