Corvidius Wrote:
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> So what are opinions on the groovy wavy walls. I
> cannot think of anything at the moment. They are
> not external city walls and seem to be just the
> outside walls of ordinary buildings. There are no
> walls like this at Deir el-Medina, or anywhere
> else, including model buildings found in tombs.
> Unexpected and odd.

I've just spotted this in another online discussion:

<< Oren Siegel, "The Development and Function of Serpentine/Sinusoidal Walls",
JARCE 52 (2016), 55-91
[www.academia.edu]

"(..) Though they were undoubtedly most frequently attested during the
Eleventh-Thirteenth Dynasties, serpentine enclosure walls were not an
exclusively Middle Kingdom phenomenon. Inhabitants of the Eighteenth
Dynasty urban sprawl north of Amenhotep III’s palace at Malkata employed
serpentine walls, as attested by Hölscher’s excavations of strata underlying
the mortuary temple of Ay and Horemheb and Medinet Habu as well as
Robichon and Varille’s work near the temple of Amenhotep son of Hapu. (..)"
(p. 77)

-- C. Robichon, A. Varille, Le Temple du scribe royal Amenhotep,
fils de Hapou / par I. IFAO, 1936. FIFAO XI.
[gallica.bnf.fr]
[archive.org]

See Plates 5 and 8 with nice maps:
[gallica.bnf.fr]
[archive.org]

[gallica.bnf.fr]
[archive.org]

showing serpentine walls and houses north (NW) of (and
also under) the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep son of Hapu,

and see Plates 25-26 with photos of "village of Amenhotep III":

[gallica.bnf.fr] >>

I don't know if this is of any help ...

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