Serdab is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 177 anagrams from letters in serdab (abders).
1835-45; Arabic sirdāb underground chamber Persian sardāb cellar for ice, equivalent to sard cold + āb water
The interior of a mastaba is composed of three parts—the chamber, the serdab, and the well.
So that the function of the serdab was to afford a safe and final asylum to the statues.
As the dolmen is a crude copy of the serdab it can be claimed as one of the ultimate results of the practice of mummification.
serdab, ser′dab, n. a secret chamber within the masonry of an ancient Egyptian tomb in which images of the deceased were stored.
Once the statue was made a stone-house (the serdab) was provided for it above ground.