Message #10110

[Catastrophe]

See also:

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/rekhmire.htm

http://www.egyptsites.co.uk/upper/luxorwest/tombs/nobles/rekhmire.html

http://alain.guilleux.free.fr/gournah_rekhmire/Pb152648.jpg


http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198304/mirrors.of.the.past.htm

In the tomb of Rekhmire, governor of Thebes and vizier during the reigns of Tuthmose III (1504-1450 B.C.) and Amenophis II (1450-1425 B.C.), are scenes from the temple workshops: goldsmiths, leather workers and rope-makers, carpenters and cabinet makers, brick makers and masons. Like the farmers and cooks, ancient artisans established systems for creating wares, some of which continue to be used by modern Egyptians. Today, in the area called Fayyum, for example, a brick maker gathers sticky mud in his hands, pats it into a rectangular wooden mold, then puts it in the sun to dry - exactly as a bricklayer did in Rekhmire's tomb. These unfired bricks were also used, only a decade or so ago, by architect Hassan Fathy in the model village he built in New Qurna, to show that traditional construction methods were still useful. And in spite of official policy, ordinary fellahin still use sun-dried mud bricks for mending and enlarging their own homes.