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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    indies wide. The fire was usually against one side of a room, with a few bricks to support the cooking pots. The doors were of wood, with wooden sill and lintel built into the wall; when the pivot hole wore down, a bit of leather was put under the pivot, usually a piece of a worn-out sandal. In the larger houses, conical granaries are often found, about 6 feet across inside, and the width of a brick in thickness ; they are some¬ times grouped together with only just space enough to squeeze between them. The great mansions are entirely different in system, but on a type which we can still trace in the palace of three thousand years later. A porter’s room faces the door. There are then three ways ; to the left hand a passage leads to the kitchens and men’s quarters, opening also through to the best rooms; directly in front are two long parallel passages, one of which goes to the best rooms of the family, and the other leads to the women’s side of the house. The kitchen and stores comprised about fourteen rooms, with a servants’ hall; the family rooms and private stores were about sixteen rooms, with three halls of columns ; the women’s side was of thirteen rooms, and one hall of columns. At the back of the house was a large open court, with a shady colonnade, and half a dozen more store rooms. This whole establishment of fifty or sixty rooms
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