Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . ound stone bases. They were octagonal, and about 10 inches in larger hou^es possessed a reception hall at the rear with a shady colonnade on the south side, while the principal hall was colonnaded and had a tank about 14 inches square in the centre sunk in the stone pavement (fig. 8). Even the poorer houses at Kahun contained a stone tank, and there is evidence Fig. 6.—Facade of a house towardthe street, New Kingdom. H H Fig. 7.—Plan of centralcourt of house, second
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . ound stone bases. They were octagonal, and about 10 inches in larger hou^es possessed a reception hall at the rear with a shady colonnade on the south side, while the principal hall was colonnaded and had a tank about 14 inches square in the centre sunk in the stone pavement (fig. 8). Even the poorer houses at Kahun contained a stone tank, and there is evidence Fig. 6.—Facade of a house towardthe street, New Kingdom. H H Fig. 7.—Plan of centralcourt of house, secondTheban period. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. II that this luxury was uuiversal, except among thepoorest, in houses of the Old Kingdom. At Tell elAmarna an elaborate bath with water supply hasbeen found in the house of a high official of theEighteenth Dynasty, and other indications bearwitness to the excellent hygienic and sanitaryarrangements known in ancient Egypt.* In the poorer houses the family crowded togetherin one or two rooms during the winter, and slept outon the roof under mosquito-nets in summer. On the. Fig. 8.—Restoration of the hall in a Twelfth Dynasty , Kaimn, and Gurob, W. M. F. Petrie. roof also the women gossiped and cooked. Theground floor included store-rooms, barns, and granaries were usually built in pairs (fig. ii)in the same long, conical shape as the State granaries,of brick, carefully plastered with mud inside and the walls and floors of their home the peoplewould make hiding-places, where they could secretetheir treasures—nuggets of gold and silver, preciousstones and jewellery—both from thieves and tax-collectors. Wherever a second floor existed, the * L. Borchardt, Milthcilitngcn Orient. Gesellscliaft., No. 50, 1912. 12 ARCHITECTURE—CIVIL AND MILITARY. arrangement of rooms was almost exactly the sameas on the ground floor. The upper rooms werereached by an outside staircase, very steep andnarrow, with smal
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