London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 327
fall down into thehollow movable tongue, into which the key is introduced; apractice common in Egypt in the present day. Formerly, as atpresent, the locks were occasionally sealed with a mass of clay,for greater security, (p. 111.) The floors of the houses weresometimes of stone, or a composition… … of the ancient Egyptians. 313 and built, like the rest of the house, of crude brick, (p. 116.)There is reason to believe that some roofs, in the larger houses,were arched with stone. At Saggara, a stone arch still existsof the time of the second Psammeticus, and consequently erected600 years before…
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