ed at a given hour in Access Traps. 49 the day, the cover with the inverted cup—which, whendown, forms the slight and only trapping—wonld befound to be taken up by the servants in order that thewater should drain more quickly away, and carry withit the multitudinous scraps of meat and other… … the drain-gases would rise unobstructedly up through thepipe and disperse over the house. If the house-drainwere in direct connection with the sewer, and the latterpoorly ventilated, a lighted candle held over the un-covered pipe would be speedily blown out. A metal bell-trap of a new pattern has…
![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu22egyp-52-90@90.webp)
