Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part 6
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Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part 2
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part 3
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part 4
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part 5
This museum has quite a few educational dioramas. One of the larger ones is a cutaway model of an upper-class Egyptian estate, probably this one from Tell al-Amarna.
Overview of the manor model
Like most ancient estates, the manor consisted of a walled courtyard containing the main building and various outlying service buildings. In Egyptian estates, a garden was also part of the enclosure.
Front gate
From the front gate, one enters a garden, complete with family shrine and a pool. The garden would be planted with flowers and shade trees.
Ovens, main building in background
The main building, built of mud-brick, housed living and sleeping quarters. If you were at all well off, you had an upper story, where the coolest rooms were, with windows and vents angled to catch the breeze. This design was common throughout the Middle East; the "Upper Room" of Jesus's Last Supper would have been the favored guest room of a two-story house.
Conversely, you put heat-producing or smelly, messy industries outside the main building, in the courtyard. Here we can see grain silos. They didn't have convenience stores in Egypt; food came in bulk form from your fields or distributed from the temple storehouses. Your servants or the women of your family baked the grain into bread and prepared the meals. You also produced most of the everyday goods that you used on the estate, much like medieval estates or colonial plantations did.
Back courtyard
...showing more of the shops, storehouses and stables that were part of the estate.
Outbuildings again
More outbuildings
Main House
Main House, Upper Story
One of the things I think is visible in the cutaway is that the main room in a manor house like this extended into the upper story. It had skylights and vents that channeled the seasonal winds into the main living/dining area.
Main House, Lower Story
Diorama, family at rest on the roof
On hot days and nights, the family would take their leisure and sleep on the roof, under a canopy where they could catch what breezes there were.
Next: Boats and Dioramas
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part 2
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part 3
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part 4
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part 5
This museum has quite a few educational dioramas. One of the larger ones is a cutaway model of an upper-class Egyptian estate, probably this one from Tell al-Amarna.
Overview of the manor model
Like most ancient estates, the manor consisted of a walled courtyard containing the main building and various outlying service buildings. In Egyptian estates, a garden was also part of the enclosure.
Front gate
From the front gate, one enters a garden, complete with family shrine and a pool. The garden would be planted with flowers and shade trees.
Ovens, main building in background
The main building, built of mud-brick, housed living and sleeping quarters. If you were at all well off, you had an upper story, where the coolest rooms were, with windows and vents angled to catch the breeze. This design was common throughout the Middle East; the "Upper Room" of Jesus's Last Supper would have been the favored guest room of a two-story house.
Conversely, you put heat-producing or smelly, messy industries outside the main building, in the courtyard. Here we can see grain silos. They didn't have convenience stores in Egypt; food came in bulk form from your fields or distributed from the temple storehouses. Your servants or the women of your family baked the grain into bread and prepared the meals. You also produced most of the everyday goods that you used on the estate, much like medieval estates or colonial plantations did.
Back courtyard
...showing more of the shops, storehouses and stables that were part of the estate.
Outbuildings again
More outbuildings
Main House
Main House, Upper Story
One of the things I think is visible in the cutaway is that the main room in a manor house like this extended into the upper story. It had skylights and vents that channeled the seasonal winds into the main living/dining area.
Main House, Lower Story
Diorama, family at rest on the roof
On hot days and nights, the family would take their leisure and sleep on the roof, under a canopy where they could catch what breezes there were.
Next: Boats and Dioramas
