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The man's real name, if he was the owner of the mastaba from whose serdab he was taken, was Ra-em-ka. The figure is less than life-sized, being a little over three and one half feet in height. It is of wood, a common material for sculpture in Egypt. The feet, which had decayed, have been restored. Originally the figure was covered with a coating of linen, and this with stucco, painted.
That there had been such lamps, I was convinced. The first grave-robber had met his death; the second had found the contents of the serdab. The first attempt had been made years since; the state of the body proved this. I had no clue to the second attempt. It might have been long ago; or it might have been recently.
As for the figures which were merely painted on the walls of the chapel, they detached themselves, and assumed material bodies inside the serdab. Notwithstanding these precautions, all possible means were taken to guard the remains of the fleshly body from natural decay and the depredations of the spoiler.
I knew them at a glance; they were the careful copies which he had made of our first transcripts from the writing in the tomb. When he had all ready, he turned to me and said slowly: "'Do you remember wondering, when we examined the tomb, at the lack of one thing which is usually found in such a tomb? "'Yes! There was no serdab. "The serdab, I may perhaps explain," said Mr.
One tomb, unfinished, was in the first instance a simple oblong hall, with a barrel roof and six columns. To form a serdab in the solid rock was almost impossible; while on the other hand, movable statues, if left in a room accessible to all comers, would be exposed to theft or mutilation. The serdab, therefore, was transformed, and combined with the stela of the ancient mastabas.
Once it had disappeared, what was to become of the Double? The portrait statues walled up inside the serdab became, when consecrated, the stone, or wooden, bodies of the defunct. The pious care of his relatives multiplied these bodies, and consequently multiplied the supports of the Double.
I am going to ask you to go out to Egypt again; to seek the tomb; to find the serdab; and to bring back the lamps!" "'And if I find there is no serdab; or if discovering it I find no lamps in it, what then? He smiled grimly with that saturnine smile of his, so rarely seen for years past, as he spoke slowly: "'Then you will have to hustle till you find them! "'Good! I said.
During the Ancient Empire, the funerary portrait statues were always immured in the serdab. Under the Theban Dynasties, the household goods of the dead were richer and more numerous. The Ka statues of his servants and family, which in former times were placed in the serdab with those of the master, were now consigned to the vault, and made on a smaller scale.
On the other side of the wall was constructed a hiding-place in the form of either a high and narrow cell, or a passage without outlet. To this hiding- place archaeologists have given the Arab name of "serdab." To this orifice came the priests, with murmured prayers and perfumes of incense.
Matthews wondered whether it were because the acoustic properties of a serdab in Dizful differ from those of a galley on the Karun, or whether there really were something new about him. "Why, it's bound to come sooner or later, isn't it?
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