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THE WORKSHOPS
the lack of suitable trees in the land. Each breadth is made up of boards
of every shape and size, fitted into one another and secured by dowels
in every direction, a coat or two of stucco covering a multitude of make-
shifts. Here a door is being made, having a projecting pivot at one angle
and a tapering point opposite it, the former to fit into a hole in the
soffit, the other to be slipped into the cone-shaped socket in the floor,
thus forming hinges which, if one excuses their groans, last as long as
the door itself. In this case the plank is neither broad enough, nor sound
to the edge; so the defect has to be made good by a narrow breadth.
This is being driven on to the wooden pins already fixed in the larger
plank. One carpenter holds his wooden mallet on the edge, and his
fellow, bringing his own down heavily upon the handle-end, drives the
board home without injuring its edge. The younger man cries to his
companion, "That's very good. Don't hit too heavily!" (lit. "Do not
let thy hand be heavy").
Jewelers succeed the carpenters; their craft being betrayed by the
finished productions above, rather than by any comprehension on our part
of the cryptic representations below. We see there strings of red, green,
and blue beads, with alternating gold ones, as well as the green mala-
chite and blue lapis (or imitation pastes of these colors) of which they
are made; a pectoral of gold joined by a short string of oval beads to a
clasp in the shape of a winged scarabaeus and disk ;* a broad bead collar
with golden hawk's-head clasps; and a mankhet pendant for the back.
The two groups, then, are obviously makers of beads and as they are
certainly using the bow-drill, they must be engaged in perforating them.2
The work is done on a little bench set on three legs, whose spreading feet
ensure greater steadiness. The fine drill-points are naturally very hard
to show in sculpture. In the absence of the painted detail the pair of
red handles in which the drills must revolve when actuated by the
bowstring appears to have only one point; possibly one handle is a
'Details in color are given in Tomb 181.
2 After considerable study I am still unable to suggest a practical method of using a multiple drill
which will conform to the pictures and also to the known conditions. Drills are shown in Tombs 75,
95, 100, 178, 181. The early method of perforation was more simple (Davies, Deir el Gebrdwi, I, PI.
XIII). The carpenter's drill is a clumsier tool worked by an angular bow and turning in a o-shaped cap.
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The carpen-
ters
Makers of
beads and
bead-work
the lack of suitable trees in the land. Each breadth is made up of boards
of every shape and size, fitted into one another and secured by dowels
in every direction, a coat or two of stucco covering a multitude of make-
shifts. Here a door is being made, having a projecting pivot at one angle
and a tapering point opposite it, the former to fit into a hole in the
soffit, the other to be slipped into the cone-shaped socket in the floor,
thus forming hinges which, if one excuses their groans, last as long as
the door itself. In this case the plank is neither broad enough, nor sound
to the edge; so the defect has to be made good by a narrow breadth.
This is being driven on to the wooden pins already fixed in the larger
plank. One carpenter holds his wooden mallet on the edge, and his
fellow, bringing his own down heavily upon the handle-end, drives the
board home without injuring its edge. The younger man cries to his
companion, "That's very good. Don't hit too heavily!" (lit. "Do not
let thy hand be heavy").
Jewelers succeed the carpenters; their craft being betrayed by the
finished productions above, rather than by any comprehension on our part
of the cryptic representations below. We see there strings of red, green,
and blue beads, with alternating gold ones, as well as the green mala-
chite and blue lapis (or imitation pastes of these colors) of which they
are made; a pectoral of gold joined by a short string of oval beads to a
clasp in the shape of a winged scarabaeus and disk ;* a broad bead collar
with golden hawk's-head clasps; and a mankhet pendant for the back.
The two groups, then, are obviously makers of beads and as they are
certainly using the bow-drill, they must be engaged in perforating them.2
The work is done on a little bench set on three legs, whose spreading feet
ensure greater steadiness. The fine drill-points are naturally very hard
to show in sculpture. In the absence of the painted detail the pair of
red handles in which the drills must revolve when actuated by the
bowstring appears to have only one point; possibly one handle is a
'Details in color are given in Tomb 181.
2 After considerable study I am still unable to suggest a practical method of using a multiple drill
which will conform to the pictures and also to the known conditions. Drills are shown in Tombs 75,
95, 100, 178, 181. The early method of perforation was more simple (Davies, Deir el Gebrdwi, I, PI.
XIII). The carpenter's drill is a clumsier tool worked by an angular bow and turning in a o-shaped cap.
75
The carpen-
ters
Makers of
beads and
bead-work