mastaba
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæstəbə/, sometimes /mæˈstaːbə/
Noun
mastaba (plural mastabas)
- A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1963, p. 68:
- A wooden shutter which closes down at night-time, and by day two palm-stick stools intensely dirty and full of fleas, occupying the place of the Mastabah or earthern bench, which accomodated[sic] purchasers, complete the furniture of my preceptor's establishment.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1963, p. 68:
- (architecture) A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions.
- The pyramids at Giza are flanked by large cemeteries containing hundreds of mastabas.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmas.ta.ba/, [ˈmäs̪t̪äbä]
- Hyphenation: mà‧sta‧ba
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