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Material : Painted Wood
Width : 40 Height : 43
Found in : Deir Al-bahari , Tomb of Meketra (1919-1920)
Period : Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: XII
Belonged_to: MEKETRA
Excavation : The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This model of a house and its garden is one of the most admired within the grave goods found in the Tomb of Meketra in El Deir el Bahari in Luxor . Meketra was a chancellor of the early Twelfth Dynasty whose burial contained a great corpus of priceless miniature models representing the daily life of ancient Egyptians at this era which ushered us to valuable information on how they had lived . Found by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1919-1920 , this wooden model shows a typical residence of ancient Egyptians which indicates the style of buildings they used to apply . Houses varied in both style and size (from a few rooms to luxurious two-stories building) depending on the social status of its residents . They were constructed with wood , adobe , and rushes .
This walled house has a colonnade of eight multi-colored , lotus-bundle pillars . In the wide court , there are seven sycamore trees with a pool of water in the center . A conventional in ancient Egyptians' houses , roofs were flat and covered with light materials thick enough to keep the sunlight out .
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