6 .-- Facade of a house toward the street, second Theban period.] [Illustration: Fig.

7 .-- Plan of central court of house, second Theban period.] [Illustration: Fig.

8 .-- Restoration of the hall in a Twelfth Dynasty house.
In the middle of the floor is a tank surrounded by a covered colonnade.
Reproduced from Plate XVI.

of _Illahun, Kahun, and Gurob_, W.M.F.
Petrie.] [Illustration: Fig.

9 .-- Box representing a house (British Museum).] The lower classes lived in mere huts which, though built of bricks, were no better than those of the present fellahin.