单词 | mastaba |
释义 | mastaban. 1. In the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean: a wide bench or seat, usually of stone or brick, built into the wall of a house, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] settlec897 siege?c1225 daisa1330 sitting placea1382 sellc1384 seata1400 seea1413 session1412 mastaba1603 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 834 Sitting vpon a pallet, which the Turkes call Mastabe. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 29 A Mastabe is a kind of a half pace, that's to say, that the Floor is raised two or three foot from the ground, and there the Travellers lodge. 1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians II. i. 10 Its [sc. the shop's] floor is even with the top of a mus′tub′ah, or raised seat of stone or brick, built against the front. This is usually about two feet and a half or three feet, in height; and about the same in breadth. 1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah I. xi. 317 In the centre [of the coffee-house] a huge square Mastabah, or platform. 1991 E. Peters Last Camel died at Noon i. iii. 51 Here I found the sheikh..and my husband seated side by side on the mastaba-bench along one wall. 2. Archaeology. An ancient Egyptian flat-topped tomb, rectangular or square in plan, with sides sloping outward to the base. Also mastaba tomb. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > types of ancient or prehistoric table tomb1738 well tomb1843 chamber tomb1850 passage grave1865 allée couverte1870 passage tomb1870 mastaba1882 tholos1885 beehive tomb1887 circle-tomb1889 shaft tomb1895 shaft-grave1910 pit-cave1921 gallery grave1937 dyss1938 1882 Nature 18 May 57/2 The mastabas were the mausolea of the richer and more important personages. 1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 469 Stone mastabahs with inscriptions. 1931 G. A. Reisner Mycerinus i. 3 Some of the mastaba tombs also belonged to members of the royal family. 1952 E. B. Garside tr. C. W. Ceram Gods, Graves, & Scholars ii. x. 120 A mastaba is an oblong structure with sloping sides containing cult rooms and connected by a shaft with a burial chamber in the rock beneath. 1964 W. L. Goodman Hist. Woodworking Tools iv. i. 160 The only tool shown in use on mastaba reliefs. 1981 G. Daniel Short Hist. Archaeol. i. 22 Richard Pococke..described the mastabas at Giza which he correctly said were the tombs of princes and nobles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603 |
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