If I would convey some idea of the residence of an Egyptian noble,--a residence half palace, half villa,--I cannot do better than reproduce two out of the many pictorial plans which have come down to us among the tomb-paintings of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

The first (figs.

14, 15) represent a Theban house.

The enclosure is square, and surrounded by an embattled wall.

The main gate opens upon a road bordered with trees, which runs beside a canal, or perhaps an arm of the Nile.