The Minor Cemetery at Giza, Unpublished Manuscript, Chapter II: Mastaba Types and Construction, p.018

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The stucco was very perishable and in few cases was it preserved to any height or over any large portion of a wall. Thus no details of any decoraction could be made out except on the large stone offering room of Sneferu-hotep (G 3008). In G 3024 were traces of color on the walls. The usual form of wall decoration was according to G 3008 and well known from examples elsewhere (for example the Queen's pyramid temple of Mykerinos) was a dado about 60-100 cm. high of black. Above this the walls were white with sometimes a smaller band of yellow with narrow black edgings just above the dado. The offering scenes were in color drawn in first with red. Human figures were drawn in according to certain rules and with certain proportions, which were marked out by horizontal red lines. In the offering room of Sneferu-hotep was a good example of the method (Fig. 2). On the west wall registeres 3, 4 and 5 contained

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