Identifier: historyofartinan01perruoft (find matches)
Title: A history of art in ancient Egypt
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914 Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901 Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918
Subjects: Art -- Egypt History Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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FIG. 119.—Transverse section through theserdabs. i8o A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. platform, or roof, of the mastaba (Fig. 122). As there was never any staircase to a mastaba either within or without, it will be seen that the well must have been a very inaccessible part of the tomb. In one single instance, namely, in the tomb of Ti, the well is sunk from the floor of the largest of the internal chambers, but whether it opened upon the roof or upon the floor of the chamber, it was always closed with the utmost care by means of a large flat stone.
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The well is generally situated upon the major axis of themastaba, and, as a rule, nearer to the north than to the south. Its depth varies, but, on an average, it is about forty feet. Now and then, however, it has a depth of sixty-five or even eighty-feet. As the well begins at the platform and ends in the rock carved mummy chamber, it follows that it passes vertically first through the mastaba, secondly through the rock upon which themastaba is founded. The built part of the well is carefully The Tomb under the Ancient Empire. i8i constructed of large and perfect stones, and in this we find one of the distinguishing characteristics of the tombs of the ancient empire. In the tomb of Ti the well takes the form of an inclined plain like a passage in the pyramids. In the common form of well the mum.my pit could only be reached by means of ropes, When the bottom of the well is reached a gaping passage is seen in the rock which forms its southern wall. This passage, which is not high enough to allow on

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