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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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