If you hadn’t noticed from my photos, we have a lot of silos
in Zone III. How they all relate to each
other chronologically can sometimes be problematic, but, in some cases we get
lucky. With these two silos here, you
can actually see how they relate. The
square one was there first, built against the enclosure wall. Then later, they came in and cut down part of
it, along with part of the enclosure wall, to build the larger circular
silo. You may also be able to see in the
photo the ashy white material between the silo walls. We think, though we can’t say for sure, that
they put ashy around and under the silos as they built them to prevent rodents
and insects from burrowing into the silos to get to the grain.
On an unrelated note, look at the super cute pot I found
today:
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| This adorable pot even had two holes for suspension by a string! |
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| The rain happened before we got to site, but seriously it looked like it was about to storm all over us all morning. |
In other news, the weather has finally started to
change. We are now averaging highs in
the mid-90s, and everyone who was sick from heat exhaustion has recovered. The other day it was even cloudy until 11am
or so, and it rained right before we got to site in the morning! (Okay, it was
more like sprinkles, but that’s about all you get in Egypt in terms of water
falling from the sky).
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