Low stone walls divide the garden into symmetrical compartments, like those which are seen to this day in the great gardens of Ekhmim or Girgeh.
[Illustration: Fig.

14 .-- Plan of a Theban house with garden, from Eighteenth Dynasty tomb-painting.] In the centre is a large trellis supported on four rows of slender pillars.
Four small ponds, two to the right and two to the left, are stocked with ducks and geese.

Two nurseries, two summer-houses, and various avenues of sycamores, date-palms, and dom-palms fill up the intermediate space; while at the end, facing the entrance, stands a small three-storied house surmounted by a painted cornice.
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15 .-- Perspective view of the Theban house, from Eighteenth Dynasty tomb-painting.] [Illustration: Fig.

16 .-- Part of the palace of Ai, from tomb-painting, Eighteenth Dynasty, El Amarna.] The second plan is copied from one of the rock-cut tombs of Tell el Amarna (figs.