Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt

FIRST EDITION, Published by Aris & Phillips Publishing, 1979, hardcover, large format (11.75" - 12.75" tall); Light blue cloth covers with title in gold lettering along spine; 160 pages; no dustjacket, condition: very good.

Jeffrey Spencers 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.

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

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 Scoiety Delta survey, of which he was director in 19972015. He retired from the BM in 2011