Merchants

• More like traders.
• Mudbrick house.
• Trades through barter.
• Goods included:
• vegetables, fish, sycamore figs, drinking cups, drink, and cloths.
• on special days: giraffes, baboons, or lions.
• Goods were set up in baskets.
• Crouched with their baskets.
• Trade beyond local trades were done by wholesale merchants who act for the Pharaoh or for large temples.
• Often travelled to other countries to trade gold, papyrus, linen cloth and jewelry for items such as cedar, ebony wood, and panther skins.
• After returning, they would exchange these goods with royalty or high officials for grain or goods at local markets.