AYLWARD M. BLACKMAN - "THE KA-HOUSE AND THE SERDAB"

AYLWARD M. BLACKMAN, M.A.   

"THE KA-HOUSE AND THE SERDAB"

"THE JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY"

VOL. III

PUBLISHED BY

THE EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND,

37, Great Russel street, W.C., London, 1916

"Among the numerous Old Kingdom mastabas uncovered by  Dr. JUNKER in the course of his excavations in the pyramid-field of Gized, during the season 1912-1913, was one of rather unusual design, belonging to a courier named Rawër. A full description will be found in JUNKER, Vorbericht über die zweite Grabung bei der Pyramiden von Gizeh vom 16 Dezember 1912 bis März 1913, pp.10-13. Parallel to Rawër's mastaba, on the east side of it, and so close as to leave only a narrow lane between them, lay a mastaba of somewhat earlier construction. The south wall of Rawër's mastaba was prolonged so as to join on to the south-west corner of this other mastaba, thus bloking one end of the lane. In the thickness of this connecting wall is the serdab belonging to Rawër's mastaba, with the usual squint in the north side."

(BLACKMAN, 1916: p. 250)