Rent was oppressive even under the Pharos scourge, apparently
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I just finished Bob Brier's History of Ancient Egypt lecture series and he talked about this. They were the chief manicurists to the pharaoh. The lectures are over a decade old but really good - his enthusiasm for the subject is contagious.