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 ;4 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. roof supported by slender columns of brilliantly painted wood. This open story is well shown in Fig. i and in a box for holding funerary statuettes, which is in the Louvre. It is repro- duced in Fig. 1 8. Upon that part of the roof which was not covered a kind of screen of planks was fixed, which served to Fig. 13. — Model of an Egyptian house ; Louvre. establish a current of air, and to ventilate the house (Fig. 19). Sometimes one part of a house was higher than the rest, forming a kind of tower (Fig. 20). Finally, some houses were crowned with a parapet finishing at the top in a row of rounded battlements 0^ til anil uui rnim mm J -H i— ® * j ^ » ® —i — __,, — 1 1 -H — 1 — 1 — 1 — 1 — 1 — 1 ® ® ® ® © ® * * Figs. 14— 17.— Flans of houses; from Wilkinson, vol. i. p. 345. (Fig. 21). In very large houses the entrance to the courtyard was ornamented with a porch supported by two pillars, with lotus flower capitals, to which banners were tied upon /eU^ days (Fig. 22). Sometimes the name of the proprietor, sometimes a hospitable sentiment, was Inscribed upon the lintel (Fig. 23).