Amarna village were in fact the Deir el-Medina community transplanted to the new capital. This theory is based on the conspicuous absence of Amarna Period royal name faience rings from Deir el-Medina; it appears that the village was uninhabited in this period. Chapels and their wall paintings Outside of the walled portion of the village approximately twenty-three chapels were built along the hillside. These chapels are generally composed of mudbrick and limestone for their construction and varied considerably in their layout. The essential features found in the more complex examples were an outer court, an inner court, and a shrine with niches. Comparison with the chapels at Deir el Medina clarify the purpose of the chapels in this village. They appear not to have been built as funerary chapels initially, but as places where divinities or family members could be worshiped, and as places where special meals could be prepared and eaten. Main Chapel The Main Chapel, located to the southeast of the walled village, is the largest and best understood, having been protected from robbers by piles of spoil from the excavations in the 1920s. It was built in the last stage of the occupation of the village, during the reign of Tutankhamun given it partly overlies earlier construction in the stratigraphy. The structure had two entrances: a formal one to the east and another further to the south which was probably for everyday use. The formal entrance seems to have had a pylon structure, while the southern entrance was approached by a line of T-shaped basins set into the ground. The chapel had several annexes for cooking and for housing animals. This chapel is most well known for its colourful paintings which survive as fragments. The majority of the paintings had a yellow background, although some also occurred on a white ground. Decoration from the Sanctuary included two vultures grasping shen rings and feather fans, and a winged sun disc, and bouquets, all likely from the east wall, above the shrine doorways. At least one vulture had a vertical chequered border. No direct evidence was present for what design occurred above the vultures but evidence of a blue band of lotus petals topped by a chequer pattern is present in association with the sun disc; it is likely this decorative scheme occurred above the vultures as well. The remains of striped cavetto cornices were also found. Long-stemmed lotus