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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.11610#0127
IIXAHUN
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they always had large circular stone bases, which
mostly remain in place in the rooms. The roofing
was usually of beams, overlaid with bundles of
straw, and mud-plastered; but many arched roofs of
brickwork remain, some entire, others with only the
lower part. The doorways were always arched in
brickwork, and we know now for certain that the arch
85. Basket with Tools, i : 7.
was not only known, but was in constant use by the
early Egyptians.
In the rooms pottery was often found ; and many parts
of the town having been deserted when the building of
the pyramid was finished, the empty rooms were used
as rubbish holes by the inhabitants who remained ; in
such places there might be even six or eight feet depth
of broken pottery, woodwork and other things. Tools
I 2
"5
they always had large circular stone bases, which
mostly remain in place in the rooms. The roofing
was usually of beams, overlaid with bundles of
straw, and mud-plastered; but many arched roofs of
brickwork remain, some entire, others with only the
lower part. The doorways were always arched in
brickwork, and we know now for certain that the arch
85. Basket with Tools, i : 7.
was not only known, but was in constant use by the
early Egyptians.
In the rooms pottery was often found ; and many parts
of the town having been deserted when the building of
the pyramid was finished, the empty rooms were used
as rubbish holes by the inhabitants who remained ; in
such places there might be even six or eight feet depth
of broken pottery, woodwork and other things. Tools
I 2