ucted in order to raise the higher floorsabove the damp soil. This question cannot, however, be decidedin the present state of our information. The southern quarter ofthe city was inhabited by the poor. It contains only small houses,crowded together, of which nothing but the outer walls and afew… … Fig. II.—Plan of a part of the city at Tell-el-Amarna ; froai Prisse. situated. All that we know is that the city properly speaking, theDiospolis of the Greeks, so called on account of the great templeof Amen which formed its centre, was on the right bank of theriver; that its houses were massed…
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