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Excerpt from Saqqara Mastabas, Vol. 1 There seems to be no typical plan followed in the building of the tomb-chapels at Saqqara, except the fact that the stele is, as a rule, placed against the west wall, facing east, though there are exceptions even to this rule. Mariette has drawn a typical stele (mast. P. And has given names to the different parts, with the inscriptions usually found on them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.