Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 176
artsof the structure are of sun-dried bricks,some of them stamped with the royalcartouche. The floor is of beaten clay,so firmly pounded that it is almost ashard as stone. The walls were plasteredwith a coating of mud similar to thatstill used in Egyptian villages. The ap-pearance of the various… … vm. 299. SURVEYOR WITH HIS LINE(Museum, Cairo).(Phot. E. Brugsch.) ART IN EGYPT were guard-rooms; courtiers and officers of the crown no doubtthronged them, taking up their positions in hierarchical orderon audience-days. A modest ante-room led thence into the
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