The rooms excavated at Abu Shahrein were built of crude brick, the walls being covered with a plaster on the inside and painted.
The mounds, sometimes formed of a mass of crude brick, sometimes of sand, gravel and other material, were kept together and protected by a casement wall of either burnt brick or stone.
The walls were usually built of crude brick, and, in damp places, or when within reach of the inundation, the lower part was strengthened by a basement of stone.
They used limestone especially for the basements of the buildings, which were more particularly exposed to the action of damp, so fatal to crude brick; they also had recourse to it for the construction of the ramparts of the royal palaces.
Egyptian dwellings were probably in most cases built of wood or crude brick, and their disappearance is thus easily explained.
Moreover, a few vaulted chambers of moderate size, and fallen fragments of crude brick vaulting of larger span, have been found in several of the Assyrian ruins.
An avenue of sphinxes formed the approach to the entrance, and the whole temple precinct was surrounded by a wall, usually of crude brick, pierced by one or more gates with or without pylons.
But in Chaldæa, as in Assyria, the mounds upon which the great buildings were raised are not always of crude brick.
It was used to give strength to the foot of the wall, which consisted of a limestone plinth nearly four feet high, surmounted by a mass of crude brick, rising to a total height of about forty-four feet.
In edifices of crude brick, the reeds were no doubt of great service, and have enabled some buildings of the kind to endure to the present day.
Drains are introduced to carry off moisture, which must otherwise have been very destructive to buildings composed mainly, or entirely, of crude brick.
Occasionally the mass of an edifice was composed entirely of crude brick; but in such cases special precautions had to be taken to secure the stability of this comparatively frail material.
The great stones were dragged up its slopes, and as the pylon grew, so did the mass of crude brick.
The building itself was constructed of crude brick, the walls being lined with enamelled tiles.
In the later periods of the empire fortresses were erected in the Delta and in the upper gorges of the Nile, but, unfortunately such works were always carried out in brick and generally in crude brick.
The little pyramids of crude brick which we find upon the irregular rocky slopes of the Kournet-el-Mourrayi, above the little window-shaped openings with which the rock is honeycombed, probably answered a similar purpose.
Imagine a multitude of small pyramids five or six metres high, carelessly oriented or not at all, and uniformly built of crude brick.
Internally they were, in every case, constructed of crude brick; while externally it was common to face them with hewn stone, either from top to bottom, or at any rate to a certain height.
Above the stone basement was a massive structure of crude brick, without any facing either of burnt brick or of stone.
At Shayda, at corner of mountains, on eastern bank, crude brick walls, and some grottoes.
Ibayda, at the corner of the mountain, crude brick walls, and some grottoes not very remarkable.
Three miles beyond Feohm, and on the opposite side (right bank), remains of crude brick walls, with hieroglyphics on the bricks.
False pyramid on opposite bank, three miles beyond El Feshu, and on eastern bank, remains of crude brick, the walls of an ancient village, called El Heebee and some hieroglyphics.
The stories are composed of solid blocks of crude brick; up to the present, at least, no traces of internal chambers have been found.
Crude brick, burnt brick, enamelled brick, but always and everywhere brick was the principal element in their construction.
The palaces, like the temples, never rose directly from the soil, but were invariably built on the top of an artificial mound of crude brick.
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