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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

CHAPTER I
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Below is a view of the outside, and above a view of the inside of a dwelling.
Reproduced from Plate XVI.

of _Illahun, Kahun, and Gurob_, W.M.F.

Petrie.] [Illustration: Fig.

11 .-- View of mansion from the tomb of Anna, Eighteenth Dynasty.] The mansions of the rich and great covered a large space of ground.

They most frequently stood in the midst of a garden, or of an enclosed court planted with trees; and, like the commoner houses, they turned a blank front to the street, consisting of bare walls, battlemented like those of a fortress (fig.


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