“I was supervising the construction of the village of Qurna in Luxor when I asked Alaeddin Mustafa the craftsman from the village of Mahamid in the Aswan to undertake the decoration of one of the entrances to the houses himself as he wanted, so he worked on the top of the door hieroglyphic shapes representing Nut – the gods of the sky from above and the shape of the earth or the mountain from below and between them A five-pointed star, and when I asked him how he came to these shapes, he did not answer more than that they draw the eye off the inside and keep the envious eye away from the door, but he did not know that they are Pharaonic symbols ‘ 1
Egyptian Doors : Language – Material – Colours – Forms – Construction details – Dimensions – Revival
In the language / ϧⲉⲛ ϯⲁⲥⲡⲓ
Egyptian Doors : ⲛⲓⲣⲁ ⲛ̀ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ
Textsture evidence:
“the door was of copper, the bolts were of bronze, made for everlastingness, at which Eternity fears”
King Amenemhat I on his royal Palace
I made a door of seven cubits of cedar from Negau, for the first doorway of the tomb, and double doors of five cubits and two palms, for the shrine of the August chamber that is within this tomb.2
HWT-NBW Its doors were erected of coppers made from a single copper plate, its signs of electrum
Material
Material was and still is a reflection of political, economic and social status, hence different materials were used with also number of dimensions following different norms according to the type of the construction. In this part we mention materials that was mentioned in texts or found in archeological sites, additionally trying to document them in The Egyptian Letter.
Copper
The scene showing metal workers is part of a wall depicting different professions in the tomb of Rekhmire’, vizier of Tuthmosis III and Amenophis II. Above, the fires are kept ablaze with foot-operated bellows; below, the men are casting bronze doors in a large mould. The inscription states that the bronze is brought from Asia, from the land of Retjenu. Atlas of Egyptian art. Page 119
Egyptian Architecture 
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