mastaba
- n an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof
the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba
- Playing his educated hunch, Professor Emery dug into the desert and discovered another buried mastaba.
- Osiris' body parts are ceramic fragments scattered at the base, each wired by bright copper cable to his ka, or soul, at the summit of the mastaba, represented by a circuit board.