Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt

by A.J. Spencer

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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
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

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