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When they had mounted sixty he knew that they must have come close to the top of the original mastabah, and close to the first stage of the pyramid.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax

Indeed, in the violet dusk, the great mastabah Pyramid of Méydûm seemed already to loom above them, although it was quite four miles away.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax