"There, in the very spot where I had expected to find it, was the opening of a serdab.

He witnessed these ceremonies through two small eye holes cut in the north wall of the serdab.

The stone which had marked the front of the serdab, and which lay back against the wall within, moved slightly.

The Arab who had opened the secret serdab.

The word serdab is also used for a type of undecorated chambers found in many pyramids.

"Perhaps you do not know that the entrance to a serdab is almost always very narrow; sometimes a hand can hardly be inserted.

Two things I learned from this serdab.

The first grave-robber had met his death; the second had found the contents of the serdab.

On the east side there is a serdab for the statue of the Ka of the deceased.

Khafre's complex contained five boat-pits and a subsidiary pyramid with a serdab.

The tomb was excavated in 1914 and several large limestone statues were found in the serdab.

And the serdab was empty.

The horizontal passage leads to rooms consisting of a funeral serdab, an antechamber, and a burial chamber.

To the east of the temple is the serdab, which is a small enclosed structure that housed the ka statue.

There was no serdab.'

One of the discoveries at the site that Quibell questioned the most during his dig was the walls that surrounded the Serdab.

In the serdab, a head of a wooden statue was discovered with the type of headdress which became very popular in the Sixth dynasty.

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.

It may be used to store offerings, store burial equipment, or it may be a serdab chamber.

The text recording queen Meresankh IV comes from a stela found in the tomb along with a serdab.

The narrow passage, which subsequently became known as the serdab (Arabic for passage), was similarly lined with masonry, but partly blocked up.

The tomb consisted of an antechamber, two offering rooms and a serdab which contained the funerary statue of the princess.

The original entrance to the Step Pyramid is directly behind the serdab, and leads down to a maze of subterranean tunnels and chambers.

The only peculiarity of the serdab is the size of the block ensuring its coverage, measuring 6.72 metres long with a weight of forty tons.

Used during the Old Kingdom, the serdab was a sealed chamber with a small slit or hole to allow the soul of the deceased to move about freely.