Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts . ilding which contains alarge tank and a series of rooms something inthe nature of a small barrack. Here, no doubt,lived the persons who had charge of the water-supply, and it was probably their duty to seethat the tank was always full. Outside thebuilding there is a trough from which the animalscould drink. One imagines the quarryrnen ortheir wives coming each day to the tank to filltheir amphorae with water, and the stablemenleading down the mules or donkeys to the , as in the animal lines at the town, one isstruck with the disciplined system
Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts . ilding which contains alarge tank and a series of rooms something inthe nature of a small barrack. Here, no doubt,lived the persons who had charge of the water-supply, and it was probably their duty to seethat the tank was always full. Outside thebuilding there is a trough from which the animalscould drink. One imagines the quarryrnen ortheir wives coming each day to the tank to filltheir amphorae with water, and the stablemenleading down the mules or donkeys to the , as in the animal lines at the town, one isstruck with the disciplined system shown in thearrangements, and it seems clear that the settle-ment was under the immediate eyes of trueRomans, uninfluenced by the slovenliness of theOrient. I first saw these ruins in the red light of sunset,and through the streets of the town I made myway in the silence of nightfall. No words canrecord the strangeness of wandering thus throughdoorways unbarred since the days of ImperialRome, and through houses uninhabited for so many. Mens Claudianus. Doorway leading- from the hall of the Bath-houseinto the room in which was the plunge - bath. Originally thewalls wTere plastered.—Page 125.
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