Social life in ancient Egypt / by W.M. Flinders Petrie.

  • Flinders Petrie
Date:
1923
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Credit: Social life in ancient Egypt / by W.M. Flinders Petrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONSTRUCTIONS - The primitive dwellings of the desert tribes are wind-screens of rough stones, piled up when sleeping on the open desert. The next stage is a tent, open on the lee side ; next, this has a screen of reeds put on the windward to break the blast, and then extended in front to keep infants and goats from straying. In later growth, the tent has a wall of brick put round it for warmth, the ropes stretching out through holes in the wall; lastly the tent roof is abandoned, and a pole and thatch roof completes the house. All of these stages may be seen at present. In the Egyptian plain, however, reeds con¬ tinued to play a large part. To this day, rows of reed huts are put up amid the spring pastures, in order to keep watch on the cattle ; and Diodoros says that the shepherds then, as now, made their houses of reeds. Among reeds must be included the stems of the durra maize, which is more often used. The primitive figures of shrines continued as a religious survival into the early dynasties. We see there the cubical hut, with two pillars of
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