Drainage systems from private houses in ancient Egypt are little known and have rarely been examined. However, one passage in the so-called ‘Legal Code of Hermopolis West’ (known in both Demotic and Greek versions) stipulates how to handle a complaint brought forward by someone whose house is being splashed by rainwater discharged from their neighbour’s roof through water drains. This papyrological source, combined with the sparse archaeological evidence, above all small models of Egyptian houses that were deposited in tombs, shed light on what such gutters could have looked like.
Meketra tomb model (© Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Speaker
Dr Aneta Skalec
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