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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    The soil of the rooms was considered, and where it was damp it was covered with cylinders of rough earthenware, with flat tops, over which a paving of bricks was laid. Drainage from roofs was provided in order to avoid leaks, but ground drainage was never laid out, nor was there any sanitary drainage, as some form of earth closet was probably used (Herodotos, ii., 35 ; P.G.R., 20). In Roman times ground drainage is found for rain-water, by rough pottery pipes fitting together with collar and socket. In the gardens of great houses there were subsidiary buildings. Light kiosks, of slight columns supporting a roof or matting, were much like what are used in Egypt now. Matting was always usual for screens or wall-covering. In the grounds, near the house, was the granary of the estate, composed of rows of barrel-roofed chambers, into which the grain could be poured at the top, and from which it was taken out at a sliding door below. In the tall granaries of the 1st dynasty the models show two doors, one half-way down for the full condition, and one near the bottom to clear the lower part. In every part of the grounds were trees both for fruit and for shade ; and the intense light would allow of the free growth of flowers and plants beneath trees, so that—as now in the fields— there may be two storeys of vegetation. The
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