Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 27.—Door of a house of the OldKingdom, from the wall of a tomb ofthe Sixth Dynast)-. MODELS OF HOUSES. 27 the royal tombs were supported on great woodenbeams nearly 20 feet in length. The stone roofingin several mastabas at Saqqara of the Fifth Dynastyis carved to imitate a roofing of beams. To judge from the wall scenes, a large use seems tohave been made of coloured matting laced to a frame-work, both for ceilings and inner walls ; good examplesof the latter use may be se
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 27.—Door of a house of the OldKingdom, from the wall of a tomb ofthe Sixth Dynast)-. MODELS OF HOUSES. 27 the royal tombs were supported on great woodenbeams nearly 20 feet in length. The stone roofingin several mastabas at Saqqara of the Fifth Dynastyis carved to imitate a roofing of beams. To judge from the wall scenes, a large use seems tohave been made of coloured matting laced to a frame-work, both for ceilings and inner walls ; good examplesof the latter use may be seen represented in the tombof Ptahhotep. Roofs of the Middle Kingdom at Beni. Fig. 28. ?Fafade of a Fourth Dynasty house, from the sarcophagusof Khiifii Poskhu. Hasan are painted to represent ceiling beams withmatting stretched between. The stelae, tombs, andcoffins of the Old Kingdom occasionally furnish uswith drawings that show us the doorways of theperiod (fig. 27), and a sarcophagus of the FourthDynasty, that of Khufu-Poskhu, is carved to resemblea house (fig. 28). From humbler graves of the OldKingdom come a number of models of houses inrough pottery.* There is a great variety, rangingfrom mere huts of one or two rooms to the house of * W. M. Flinders Petrie, Rifeh, 1907. 28 ARCEIITECTURE—CIVIL AND MILITARY. five rooms enclosed in a courtyard with high crenel-lated walls. The columned portico in front is almostinvariable. The outside staircase to the roof is rarelyabsent, sometimes straight, sometimes winding ; thereare the miilkafs, the barred windows, the water tanks,and houses of two stories ; on the roof are the smallchambers, sometimes elaborated
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