Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt

A J Spencer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2023
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-88857-030-2 (ISBN)

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Facsimile re-issue (first published in 1979) of a comprehensive detailed account of the surviving brick architecture of ancient Egypt, with special reference to technical and structural matters.

First published in 1979, this facsimile edition of Jeffrey Spencer’s comprehensive study provides a detailed account of the brick architecture of ancient Egypt. Part I provides introductory information on brick manufacture, early use of brick in Egypt and explains the corpus of brick bonding systems. Part II provides an account of the surviving brick buildings, discussed by type, with special reference to technical and structural matter. Part III presents an examination of the constructional techniques employed at different periods for various purposes. A discussion of the kinds of bricks used, their sizes, and bonding is included.

This series comprises facsimile re-issues of typological catalogues produced between 1898 and 1937 by W.M. Flinders Petrie, based on his vast collection of Egyptian artefacts which now reside in The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, University College, London. Long out of print, the catalogues were re-issued in facsimile by publishers Aris & Phillips in the 1970s alongside newly-commissioned titles by contemporary experts – of which Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt is one. The Oxbow Classics in Egyptology series makes a selection of these important resources – which remain invaluable source material – available again in print for a new generation of students and scholars.

Jeffrey Spencer was formerly Deputy Keeper of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum where he specialised in the archaeology of ancient Egypt, particularly the Nile Delta. He set up the Egypt exploration Society Delta survey, of which he was director in 1997–2015. He retired from the BM in 2011

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Preface

Introduction

Part I

1. Brick manufacture

2. The earliest use of brick in Egypt

3. The bonding corpus

Part II

4. Funerary architecture

5. Religious architecture

6. Administrative and official buildings

7. Domestic architecture

8. Fortresses and defensive town walls

Part III

9. Brick walls

10. Floors and foundations

11. Arches, vaults, domes and corbels

12. Solid brick construction in mastabas and pyramids

13. Supplementary materials in brick construction

14. Bonding

15. Special bricks

16. Brick sizes

Appendix I: Metrology of Egyptian brickwork

Indexes

Plates

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 297 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-13	979-8-88857-030-2 / 9798888570302
Zustand	Neuware