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By Jill Kamil
It's a first-class guidebook that offers specified descriptions of the temples, tombs, and different websites on either the east and west facets of the Nile.
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At the top, in charge of the wh ole comm unity, were t~e Di recto r of W or ks and th e vario us for em en im mediately un de r his control. Atte nda nce was str ictly marked and an abse nt worker had to acco unt for himself. The wr itten exc uses have surv ived th e centu ries. O ne had to ' visit rnv mothe r- in-law' . Anot her had to get urge nt suppl ies fro m th e marker . Illn ess was a freq uent exc use . T he scan da ls, q uar rels and co mplai nts of th e w()r kers\~ere all recor~ed . On one occa sion a co mplaint reac hed th e au tho rities that a chair, a box and a mi rr or were m issing fro m th e tom b of a worker.
A reciprocal gesture of appreciation ? Or a royal bribe ? Beyond the eighth pylon is a row of six royal personages. The best preserved are Amenhotep I (in limeston e) and Thutmose II (in red gr anite), both to the west. g) was bu ilt by Harrnhab th e one- tim e ge ne ral. I O), with blocks from Ikhnaton's te m p le to th e Sun. Together with the 40,000- odd blo cks from th is same period found beneath the hypostyle ha ll and the second p ylon , th ese number some 60 ,000 blocks and ar e valuable clues to a period abo ut whi ch th er e arc man y gaps in our know led ge.
H e descri bed them in det ail. A chec k was made . No thing was foun d . one of the sma ll tombs in th e surroun ding cliffs where the dead at the village were b ur icd ! T here were also complaints of a mor e serious nature, as for examp le the bac klog of sa lari~s whic h led t(~ the famo us. Revolution «[t hc zo thi z tst Dyu ust ics, written on papyn and recor dtn~ that the au t ho ri ties failed to give allowances to the peo ple of the vlll a~e for two m onth s. he form of charcoal, d ried m eat , fish, ban dages and cloth, along wit h mat er ials for th eir work .