Word: mastaba
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lythgoe, instructor in Egpytology, last night gave the last of his series of lectures in the Fogg Lecture Room on the work of the Hearst Egyptian Expedition. The subject of the lecture, which was illustrated with stereopticon views, was "The Mastaba-Tombs of the Pyramid-Field of Gizeh...
...Lythgoe briefly outlined the development of the mastaba-tomb--so called from its resemblance to the mastaba or typical seat of the Arab house. In prehistoric times the most elementary form of the mastaba served alike as a protection to the corpse and as an altar for ancestral offerings. The grave was brick-lined, and roofed over with wooden logs or slabs of white limestone. Later on was erected around the grave a low wall of dried red brick, which contrasted vividly with the yellow sand of the desert. In its final form the mastaba consisted of a great rectangular...
...Lythgoe, instructor in Egyptology, will give the last of his series of lectures on the work of the Hearst Egyptian Expedition this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. The subject of the lecture will be "The Mastaba-Tombs of the Pyramid-Field of Gizeh...
...LECTURES ON EGYPTIAN EXCAVATIONS. III. "The Mastaba-tombs of the Pyramid-field of Gizeh," (illustrated by lantern slides), Mr.A. M. Lythgoe. Fogg Lecture Room...
...Fogg Lecture Room. This will be the first of three lectures which Mr. Lythgoe will deliver upon the general subject, "The Excavations carried on by the Hearst Egyptian Expedition, 1899-1905." The other two lectures will be upon "The Cemeteries of Girga" on March 31, and "The Mastaba-tombs of the Pyramid-field of Gizeh," on April 7. All the lectures will be illustrated by stereopticon views showing the work accomplished by the Expedition...