ABSTRACT
Upon a single plate in one of Griffith’s works is collected a number of architectural hieroglyphs of the Ancient Empire. The stele of the Serpent King depicts an important architectural framework. The explanation of several other hieroglyphic signs which are more complex must be worked out in connection with the study of the architecture of the Ancient Empire. The cult of the gods and of the dead, the Egyptians merely borrowed from the usages of the living. “Pharaoh” in Egyptian really means “the great double house.” Thus the whole administration is divided into two parts: even in the religious cult it was never neglected to represent the share of the two Egypts in offerings to the gods. The appearance of the architectural type in the tomb-pictures bears witness to the spread of royal funerary rites to more and more extensive classes of the Egyptian population.
