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What is a mastaba?

What is a mastaba? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
  2. (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.
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A new mosque has been built near the mastaba to accommodate visitors during praying time.
At the time of the Joint Mission, two large foundations for a building planned to be added to the mastaba were being dug.
It consists of a mastaba and a grave that is severely damaged and the top tomb stone is fragmented.
Who could it be other than the grain merchant sitting cross-legged on his bench above the shop's mastaba?
A different arrangement had therefore to be devised from that adopted in the case of the mastaba.
It might also evoke architectural associations, most explicitly an ancient Egyptian mastaba.

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