Here is a virtual reconstruction of a detail in a “typical house” in Deir el Medina.
Based upon the original rests, the structure of a worker’s house, has been reconstructed and divided.
After the entrance there was a “ closed-bed room” so-called because of a platform surrounded by sides and accessible thanks to steps, the purpose was to be able to sleep rather safely from the scorpions. In other cases there is a pantry or a family altar in place of the platform.
The decoration has two images of god Bes, chosen from the traces of paintings in one of the houses.
In other houses there are traces that let suppose naturalistic wall paintings, personages on red and yellow ochre backgrounds.
A stone base, found in many houses, supported a wood column, of which there are no examples.
Behind the house, the village walls and the Texan mountain are seen.

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