Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

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.htm with 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 <ishinan AT comcast.net> 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, …

 

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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