. Discovery. Science. 256 DISCOVERY grounds. In tlic summrr the West Loggia would be insufferably lu)t during two-thirds of the day, while in the winter the North Loggia would on many days, as anyone who has lived in Kgypt will testify, be very uncomfortably cold. With two loggias all extremes of climate could be met. The entrances to the house, usually two, lay through the loggias, which were approached from outside up a few shallow steps and through a small anteroom. South and cast of the Central Hall lay the domestic quarters, and the bathroom, which was always present in a good house. The
. Discovery. Science. 256 DISCOVERY grounds. In tlic summrr the West Loggia would be insufferably lu)t during two-thirds of the day, while in the winter the North Loggia would on many days, as anyone who has lived in Kgypt will testify, be very uncomfortably cold. With two loggias all extremes of climate could be met. The entrances to the house, usually two, lay through the loggias, which were approached from outside up a few shallow steps and through a small anteroom. South and cast of the Central Hall lay the domestic quarters, and the bathroom, which was always present in a good house. The bath was precisely similar to the ablution slab in the Central Hall, but it was often in a corner with side-slabs of stone to protect the mud walls from the splashing. The only other feature of the house which demands notice is the flight of steps which. KING AKHEKATON AND HIS QUEEN, HEFERTITI, IN THEIR CHARIOT, WITH THE RAYS OF THE SUN'S DISK SHINING ON THEM. (Reproduced by courtesy 0/ the Egypt Exploration Society.) invariably led up from the Central Hall to the roof, where it appears that much of the domestic business was done. Outside the house the most striking features are the well, which has a narrow winding flight of steps leading to a platform halfway down, where the girls stood to draw up the water from below, and the granaries, round brick structures, sunk about three feet into the ground, and rising six feet above it, with domed tops. In the gardens were found deep pockets of Nile mud sunk in the sand in order to give sustenance to the trees which provided the noble with shade in the heat of the day. A small summer-house beside the well was a feature of many of the larger gardens. Many houses carried on their door-posts short hymns of praise to the Disk, followed by the names and titles of their owners. Thus the finest house found was in this way identified as that of the Master of the King's Horse, Ranefcr. Among the numerous objects dis- co\'ercd in the hou
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