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See also: Egyptian architecture, the See also: term given to the rectangular tombs in See also: stone with raking sides and a flat roof
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There were three
See also: chambers inside
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In one the walls were sometimes richly decorated with paintings and had a low bench of stone in them on which See also: incense was burnt: The second chamber was either closed, with holes pierced in the See also: wall separating it from the first chamber, or entered through a narrow passage through which the fumes of the incense passed; this chamber contained the serdab or figure of the deceased
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A vertical well-hole cut in the See also: rock descended to a third chamber in which the mummy was laid
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