The vaults[30] are of various shapes and dimensions, are made of burnt brick, and consist generally of a fairly spacious chamber and an entrance shaft.
The ziggurat at Abu Shahrein,[61] also excavated by Taylor, is about seventy feet high, and like that at Mukeyyer is cased with a wall of burnt brick.
Above the stone masonry the tower was continued at nearly the same width, the casing of stone being simply replaced by one of burnt brick of inferior thickness.
The only pointed arch actually discovered is of burnt brick.
Above the stone basement was a massive structure of crude brick, without any facing either of burnt brick or of stone.
Further, in using river or sea-sand, the addition of a third part composed of burnt brick, pounded up and sifted, will make your mortar of a better composition to use.
In these tall piles reared with piers of stone, walls of burnt brick, and partitions of rubble work, and provided with floor after floor, the upper stories can be partitioned off into rooms to very great advantage.
On the top of the wall lay a structure of burnt brick, about a foot and a half in height, under the tiles and projecting like a coping.
If this was really the case, we may conclude that those walls were not composed of burnt brick, as he imagined, but of the sun-dried material.
It is mainly composed of sun-dried brick, but shows signs of having been faced with fire-burnt brick, carefully cemented with an excellent white mortar.
While the river was bordered by quays of burnt brick, the bridge, says the historian, "was built of very large stones, bound together with iron clamps embedded in lead.
When desiccation was carried far enough, such materials could be used, in interiors at least, so as to fulfil the same functions as stone or burnt brick.
The domes and arcades were of well-burnt brick; the straight walls were often built of broken stone, when it was to be had in the neighbourhood.
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