. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . A Nestorian House, with Stages upon the Roof for sleeping.—(Layard, Ninmeh, i. 155.) Entrance to House in Cairo.—(Lane, Modern Egyptians.) the ground (1 Sam. xxviii. 24). (Barn.) The win-dows are small apertures high up in the walls, some-times grated with wood. (Lattice; Window.)The roofs are commonly, but not always, flat, and areusually formed of a plaster of mud and straw laidupon boughs or rafters; and, upon the flat roofs,tents, or booths of boughs and rushes, are oftenraised to be used as sleeping-places in summer. Thedifference between the po
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . A Nestorian House, with Stages upon the Roof for sleeping.—(Layard, Ninmeh, i. 155.) Entrance to House in Cairo.—(Lane, Modern Egyptians.) the ground (1 Sam. xxviii. 24). (Barn.) The win-dows are small apertures high up in the walls, some-times grated with wood. (Lattice; Window.)The roofs are commonly, but not always, flat, and areusually formed of a plaster of mud and straw laidupon boughs or rafters; and, upon the flat roofs,tents, or booths of boughs and rushes, are oftenraised to be used as sleeping-places in summer. Thedifference between the poor-est houses and those of theclass next above them isgreater than between theseand the houses of the firstrank. The prevailing planof Eastern houses of thisclass presents, as was thecase in ancient Egypt, afront of wall, whose blank andmean appearance is usuallyrelieved only by the door anda few latticed and projectingwindows. Within this is acourt or courts with apart-ments opening into some nouses at Damascusare seven such c
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