Volume 1

A popular account of the Ancient Egyptians : revised and abridged from his larger work / by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson.

  • John Gardner Wilkinson
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A popular account of the Ancient Egyptians : revised and abridged from his larger work / by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ladies of the family to sit at work in during the day, and here the master of the house often slept at night during the summer, or took his siesta in the afternoon. Some had a tower which rose even above the terrace. The first-floor was what the Italians call the piano nohile the ground rooms being chiefly used for stores, or as offices, of which one was set apart for the porter, and another for visiters coming on business. Sometimes besides the parlour were receiv- ing apartments on the base- TheUs. ment-story, but guests were generally entertained on the first- floor ; and on this were the sleeping rooms also, except where the house was of two or three stories. The houses of wealthy citizens often covered a considerable space, and either stood directly upon the street, or a short way back, within an open court; and some large mansions were detached, and had several entrances on two or three sides. Before the door was a porch supported on two columns, decked with banners or ribands, and larger porticos had a double row of columns, with statues between them. Other mansions had a flight of steps leading to a raised plat- form, with a doorway between two towers, not unlike those before 9. Porch. Thebes and Tel el Amarna.
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