Dear Ishinan: Thank you for the reference.
Because you are the first person I heard of that claimed that fired bricks were made by others than just Raamsis II, I went to look for the evidence that you mentioned. I found http://www.osirisnet.net/mastabas/ty/e_ty_01.htmwith eight pages of descriptions of the tomb. The only reference to bricks I found was to “mud bricks”, i.e. adobe. Pottery also needs to be fired in a kiln, are the kilns that you mention designated for pottery rather than construction bricks used in building houses? Can you provide some references that I can check up on, as in my experience you are a minority opinion? The other sources (plural) that I have found all say that Raamsis II was the only pre-Greco-Roman era pharaoh to utilize fired bricks for construction purposes. Further, from a Biblical historical source, he is dated to the time of Jeremiah. Thanks again, Karl W. Randolph. On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Ishinan <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > "Further, we have in the language and literature of Hebrew that Jeremiah > mentioned a brick kiln next to the king’s palace in Egypt.… > > Archeology has found that only one Egyptian king before the Greco-Roman > period used kiln fired bricks, … > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > Ishinan: in Ancient Egypt, the technique of brick made in updraft kilns > goes back to the 5th Dynasty Old kingdom (ca. 2465 - 2323 BC). > Examples were commonly depicted in tomb scenes such as the case of > the mastaba of Ty located at the nothern edge of the Saqqara > necropolis. (see Épron et al. 1939: pl.71). The technique has survived in > present-day Egyptian kilns. > > > Ishinan Ishibashi >
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