Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . just described. Thus of the domestic buildings of the secondTheban period we have a very remarkable amount ofremains. The lamps made in the form of houses, * L. Borchardt, Miitheilungen Orient. GesdUchaft., Nos. 34, 1907,and 50, Oct. 1912. 26 ARCHITECTURE—CIVIL AND MILITARY. r ii la II II nrrr ^3 which are found in such large numbers in the Fa\um,date only from Ptolemaic and Roman times ; they serve to show thatthe same methods ofbuilding prevailedthen as under theEighteenth and
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . just described. Thus of the domestic buildings of the secondTheban period we have a very remarkable amount ofremains. The lamps made in the form of houses, * L. Borchardt, Miitheilungen Orient. GesdUchaft., Nos. 34, 1907,and 50, Oct. 1912. 26 ARCHITECTURE—CIVIL AND MILITARY. r ii la II II nrrr ^3 which are found in such large numbers in the Fa\um,date only from Ptolemaic and Roman times ; they serve to show thatthe same methods ofbuilding prevailedthen as under theEighteenth andNineteenth Dyn-asties. As regards thedomestic architec-ture of the OldKingdom, the actualremains are of thepoorer houses of theOld Kingdom werefound at the brickflooring was raisedabove the damp ofthe basal clay, bybeing laid on rows ofinverted cylindricalpots of rough is evidencethat previous to theFourth Dynasty ex-ten si ve use wasmade of wood. The flooring planks of a royal tombof the First Dynasty at Abydos were placed on17-inch beams, and the ceilings also of some of. 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
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