Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word SERDAB
SERDAB
Definitions of SERDAB
- A sealed chamber in an Ancient Egyptian tomb that held the ka statue of a deceased individual, having a small slit or hole to allow the soul of the deceased to move about freely.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using SERDAB in a Sentence
- No further cultic buildings were detected, but Egyptologists and archaeologists are convinced that once upon a time a mortuary temple and a serdab existed but were destroyed due to the looting of stone from his cult buildings in antiquity.
- In his tomb, he is described as a hereditary prince, count, sealer of the king of Lower Egypt (jrj-pat HAtj-a xtmw-bjtj), and on a statue found in his serdab (and now located in Hildesheim), Hemiunu is given the titles: king's son of his body, chief justice, and vizier, greatest of the five of the House of Thoth (sA nswt n XT=f tAjtj sAb TAtj wr djw pr-DHwtj).
- After establishing that the mastaba contained no serdab or stelae, he refocussed his efforts elsewhere, leaving the rest of the mastaba unexcavated.
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