21 .-- Ceiling pattern from behind, Medinet Habu, Twentieth Dynasty.] [Illustration: Fig.

22 .-- Ceiling pattern similar to one at El Bersheh, Twelfth Dynasty.] I have touched chiefly upon houses of the second Theban period,[2] this being in fact the time of which we have most examples.

The house-shaped lamps which are found in such large numbers in the Fayum date only from Roman times; but the Egyptians of that period continued to build according to the rules which were in force under the Pharaohs of the Twelfth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties.

As regards the domestic architecture of the ancient kingdom, the evidences are few and obscure.
Nevertheless, the stelae, tombs, and coffins of that period often furnish designs which show us the style of the doorways (fig.

24), and one Fourth Dynasty sarcophagus, that of Khufu Poskhu, is carved in the likeness of a house (fig.