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Hipogeum vs Mastaba - What's the difference?

hipogeum | mastaba |

As a noun mastaba is

a wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc in the middle east.

hipogeum

Not English

Hipogeum has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'hipogeum':

hypogeum, hypogaeum, hobbyism

mastaba

English

Alternative forms

* mastabah

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
  • * 1855 , Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah , Dover 1963, p. 68:
    • A wooden shutter which closes down at night-time, and by day two palm-stick stools intensely dirty and full of fleas, occupying the place of the Mastabah or earthern bench, which accomodated purchasers, complete the furniture of my preceptor's establishment.
  • (architecture) A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions.
    • The pyramids at Giza are flanked by large cemeteries containing hundreds of mastabas .