Saqqara - Mastabas

Outside the enclosure wall, to the south, are several mastabas of the Third-Sixth Dynasties. Particularly notable is one which was originally constructed for an official named Ikh but was later used for the burial of Princess Sesh-seshet or Idut. It is decorated with reliefs with well preserved coloring, including one of a genet and an ichneumon robbing birds' nests in a papyrus swamp, and has a number of underground store rooms, originally containing baskets of fruit and grain, which were sealed with the seals of Kings Khasekhemwy and Djoser.