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

  • Flinders Petrie
Date:
1923
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    IJ2 The furniture is also modelled—a high-backed chair, a couch, the stand for the water jars, and the stone corn-grinder on a stand, placed beneath the stairs, with a woman grinding. When there was a new town required for public works, the whole was laid out in regular streets, straight and parallel, as at Kahun in the Xllth dynasty. The houses may be of any size, from four rooms to sixty, and each street con¬ tains a uniform size of house. The streets vary in length ; one is 62 feet long for two houses, others are 230 feet long for eight or nine houses ; the main street of mansions, 900 feet long, has eight great houses along it. The streets vary from 11 to 15 feet wide. They had a channel of stone down the middle for a drain, like the old English kennel. There was no separate footway, because there were no vehicles in such a town. The simplest house had an open court opposite to the entrance, a common room on one side, and two store rooms on the other, with a stairway up to the roof. The larger type for artisans had an open court, four rooms opening off it, and five others dependent on the outer rooms. Usually the rooms were covered with poles and thatch ; larger rooms had a barrel vault of brickwork. All the doorways were arched. The stairways go up in two short flights of half a dozen steps, with a turn in the middle : the steps are about 27
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