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Egypt
DOI article:Maślak, Szymon: Building G in Naqlun: material, construction, furnishing
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42091#0211
NAQLUN
EGYPT
They could have reinforced the upper parts
of the walls around the setting of the roof
beams or else they could have held in place
the wooden elements of window frames.
Gray mud mortar, often a shade lighter
than the bricks in color, was used invariably
as binding material.6 Temper other than
chaff included lime, gravel and yellow
desert clay, either separately or in com-
bination. Horizontal joints between bricks
had a thickness of 0.3-1.5 cm.
In the newly uncovered rooms most of
the walls were coated with mud plaster
containing organic temper. A very fine
coating of such plaster was found in rooms
G.4 and G.6, where the floor was made of
the same material and passed smoothly
into the walls. Fragments of hard grayish
lime plaster (0.4-1.2 cm thick) were found
scattered in the fill of room G.8a above
yellow desert clay (with chaff). Since not
one piece was detected on the walls of the
room, it is reasonable to think that the
plaster was found here accidentally and
originated rather from the nearby
Building D.
Fig. 1. Room G. 8a, view from the south. Example of wall bond consisting of alternating courses
of headers on edge and stretchers (Photo W. God lews ki)
6 Cf. Maslak, PAM XV, op. cit., 153.
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EGYPT
They could have reinforced the upper parts
of the walls around the setting of the roof
beams or else they could have held in place
the wooden elements of window frames.
Gray mud mortar, often a shade lighter
than the bricks in color, was used invariably
as binding material.6 Temper other than
chaff included lime, gravel and yellow
desert clay, either separately or in com-
bination. Horizontal joints between bricks
had a thickness of 0.3-1.5 cm.
In the newly uncovered rooms most of
the walls were coated with mud plaster
containing organic temper. A very fine
coating of such plaster was found in rooms
G.4 and G.6, where the floor was made of
the same material and passed smoothly
into the walls. Fragments of hard grayish
lime plaster (0.4-1.2 cm thick) were found
scattered in the fill of room G.8a above
yellow desert clay (with chaff). Since not
one piece was detected on the walls of the
room, it is reasonable to think that the
plaster was found here accidentally and
originated rather from the nearby
Building D.
Fig. 1. Room G. 8a, view from the south. Example of wall bond consisting of alternating courses
of headers on edge and stretchers (Photo W. God lews ki)
6 Cf. Maslak, PAM XV, op. cit., 153.
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