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#PAPYRUS DRAWING EGYPT DRIVERS#

Some of these papyri provide information regarding brick making of the Hebrew slaves. Brickmaking was a labor specialization normative for slaves in ancient Egypt. We know from Papyrus Anastasi III (3.1–2) (shown) that the Egyptians set quotas for brickmakers: Likewise, people are making bricks … they are making their quota of bricks daily. For example, Papyrus Anastasi Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅴ etc. The British Museum acquired from Anastasi, a collection of antiquities and among them many Egyptian papyri which were assigned by his name. He sold large collections of antiquities to many national museums.

He established himself as a wealthy merchant and antiquarian. Giovanni Anastasi (1765–1860) was born to an Armenian family from Damascus. Each type of construction was considered specialised labour: in other words, people who did one did not do the other. Palaces on the other hand, were built for comfort out of mudbrick, which was cool in the day and warm at night. Temples were generally built with stone and they were meant to last throughout the ages. Is there any archaeological confirmation of these verses?īuildings in ancient Egypt were constructed from either stone or mudbrick. They constructed store houses at Pithom and Rameses.

#PAPYRUS DRAWING EGYPT DRIVERS#

Slave Drivers and Overseers were in charge of the people.

They had to fulfill a quota of bricks each day.

Straw was used in the making of bricks.

There are several pieces of information we can glean from these pieces of scripture. They are lazy that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.” But require them to make the same number of bricks as before don’t reduce the quota. That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people: “You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks let them go and gather their own straw. So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.” “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. The Bible tells us that while the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, they had to make bricks for the Pharaoh’s building projects.