Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 9.—Wall-painting in a Twelfth Dynasty house, Kahiin. Belowis a view of the outside, above is a view of the inside of thebuilding. lUahuii, Kahun, and Gurob, W. M. F. Petrie. symmetrical air-holes near the ceiling, provided witha grill of wooden bars and closed with a woodenshutter. The floors were bricked or paved, or morefrequently consisted of beaten earth. The walls weresometimes whitewashed, sometimes decorated withbright colours, red and yellow, or painted withfamiliar
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 9.—Wall-painting in a Twelfth Dynasty house, Kahiin. Belowis a view of the outside, above is a view of the inside of thebuilding. lUahuii, Kahun, and Gurob, W. M. F. Petrie. symmetrical air-holes near the ceiling, provided witha grill of wooden bars and closed with a woodenshutter. The floors were bricked or paved, or morefrequently consisted of beaten earth. The walls weresometimes whitewashed, sometimes decorated withbright colours, red and yellow, or painted withfamiliar domestic scenes (fig. 9). The roof was Kahun it consisted of beams of wood, thatched FIREPLACES. 13. and plastered with mud both inside and out. Some-times it was furnished with one or two ventilators,the mulkafs of modern Egyptian dwcUings, andgenerally there wasa washhouse on theroof, and a smallsleeping - chamberfor the slaves orthe guards (fig. 10).The householdfire was on theground floor. Thehearth was hol-lowed out of theearthen floor,usually to one sideof the room, and the smoke escaped through a holein the ceiling ; branches of trees, charcoal, and driedcakes of ass or cow dung were used for fuel. AtAbydos, in the primitive Thinite town, clustered round the Templeof Osiris, werefound potteryhearths, in whichcharcoal was burnt—in one of themthe cinders werestill lying. The mansions of Fig. 10. —Box representing a iiouse(British Museum).
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