In 1881, I however discovered some tombs at Sakkarah, in which the vault is decorated in preference to the chapel.
These tombs are built with large bricks, a niche and a stela sufficing for the reception of sacrificial offerings.

In place of the shaft, they contain a small rectangular court, in the western corner of which was placed the sarcophagus.

Over the sarcophagus was erected a limestone chamber just as long and as wide as the sarcophagus itself, and about three and a half feet high.

This was roofed in with flat slabs.

At the end, or in the wall to the right, was a niche, which answered the purpose of a _serdab_; and above the flat roof was next constructed an arch of about one foot and a half radius, the space above the arch being filled in with horizontal courses of brickwork up to the level of the platform.