The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . ARTS & CRAFTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT stems. These had a loose, wiry head like an Equi-setum or mares tail. When used for a cabin on aboat, the roofing stems were put through the loose. m head, which was tied above and below to hold the row of heads became copied as an orna-ment along the tops of walls, and continued in usethus down to the latest times. The use of the arch was familiar from early before the pyramid-builders small arches ofbricks were made. They were the general mode ofroofing in the Xllth dynasty, when we see themdrawn and
The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . ARTS & CRAFTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT stems. These had a loose, wiry head like an Equi-setum or mares tail. When used for a cabin on aboat, the roofing stems were put through the loose. m head, which was tied above and below to hold the row of heads became copied as an orna-ment along the tops of walls, and continued in usethus down to the latest times. The use of the arch was familiar from early before the pyramid-builders small arches ofbricks were made. They were the general mode ofroofing in the Xllth dynasty, when we see themdrawn and imitated in stone. From the XlXthdynasty there remain the great arched store-roomsof the Ramesseum. Being of dried mud brick,which is far more easily crushed than stone or burntbrick, the circular form was not suitable, as the apexwould yield by crushing. A more or less parabolic 64 THE ARCHITECTURE form was therefore used, so as to give a sharpercurve at the top. To protect these arches from theweather, they were laid four courses thick, with adeep layer of sand and gravel over the top, to absorbany rain as a sponge. Arches were usually built without any centring;and to this day the Egyptian similarly builds
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