Abstract
The rows of mastabas in organized ranks that surround the pyramid of Khufu at Giza have often been cited as a clear visual expression of the highly developed government administration of Egypt in the 4th dynasty and of the central position of the king within it. Underlying this analogy is the assumption that tomb sites were assigned according to some sort of rule, and hence that the pattern of spatial organization in corresponds to some administrative or social organization in the royal court of the Old Kingdom. The only cemetery where this assumption has been tested to any extent is that of Giza.1 Reisner concluded that the organization there was primarily based on family relationships, and that all of the tombs were built around core cemeteries centered on the tombs of various branches of
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