The final connection to Weni came from a rectangular serdab, or hidden chamber, in the southeast corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quest for Weni the Elder] Reference

The first grave-robber had met his death; the second had found the contents of the serdab.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

The man's real name, if he was the owner of the mastaba from whose serdab he was taken, was Ra-em-ka.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

In some cases external structures of temple-form took the place of the underground chapel and serdab.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

The serdab was replaced by a niche in which was the figure of the defunct carved from the native rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

The stone which had marked the front of the serdab, and which lay back against the wall within, moved slightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

Depend upon it, there was -- there is -- a serdab; and that in it, when it is discovered, we shall find the lamps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

Pointers of the Plough indicated a spot to the left hand, or south side, of the opening of the serdab, where was a single star in gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

The hiding of the lamps in the serdab, and the institution of the avenging 'treasurer' shows that there was defence, positive as well as negative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

This then had been what happened: The grave-robber, more expert at his work than we had been, and suspecting the presence of a hidden serdab, had made essay to find it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

This tomb, as we have seen, consists of a portico, a courtyard, two chambers, and a sepulchral vault; but it also contains a secret passage of the kind known as a "serdab.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference

Twenty statues of Ti were here found immured in the serdab of his tomb, all broken save one – a spirited figure in limestone, standing about seven feet high, and now in the museum at.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference

For in a small, inaccessible chamber (serdab) reserved in the mass of masonry were placed one or more portrait statues of the owner, and often of his wife and other members of his household, while the walls of another and larger chamber, which served as a chapel for the celebration of funeral rites, were often covered with painted bas - reliefs, representing scenes from the owner's life or whatever in the way of funeral offering and human activity could minister to his happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

"'I have come to the conclusion that there must be a serdab -- a secret one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

"There, in the very spot where I had expected to find it, was the opening of a serdab.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

"'And if I find there is no serdab; or if discovering it I find no lamps in it, what then?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

"The serdab, I may perhaps explain," said Mr. Corbeck to me, "is a sort of niche built or hewn in the wall of a tomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

I am going to ask you to go out to Egypt again; to seek the tomb; to find the serdab; and to bring back the lamps! '".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

"Perhaps you do not know that the entrance to a serdab is almost always very narrow; sometimes a hand can hardly be inserted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

There was no serdab. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

And the serdab was empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

Two things I learned from this serdab.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

The Arab who had opened the secret serdab.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference