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| - The simplest form of pottery made in a mould. They are either sim-dried (See "Adobe") or burnt in the kiln. The building of Babel attests the antiquity of brick-making. The Babylonians used both kinds of bricks, and the cuneiform characters with which many of them are inscribed, are subjects for interesting, though hitherto unsuccessful research. The Greeks employed bricks to a great extent. The walls of Athens were of brick, so was the house of Croesus, and the celebrated tomb of Mausolus, the seventh wonder of the world, though ornamented with such costly decorations in marble as to call forth the indignant exclamation of the pliilosopher, was built of brick. Augustus is said to have found Eome of brick, but to have left it of marble, yet brick was stiU employed in many of the most sumpt
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| - The simplest form of pottery made in a mould. They are either sim-dried (See "Adobe") or burnt in the kiln. The building of Babel attests the antiquity of brick-making. The Babylonians used both kinds of bricks, and the cuneiform characters with which many of them are inscribed, are subjects for interesting, though hitherto unsuccessful research. The Greeks employed bricks to a great extent. The walls of Athens were of brick, so was the house of Croesus, and the celebrated tomb of Mausolus, the seventh wonder of the world, though ornamented with such costly decorations in marble as to call forth the indignant exclamation of the pliilosopher, was built of brick. Augustus is said to have found Eome of brick, but to have left it of marble, yet brick was stiU employed in many of the most sumptuous edifices, ^the Pantheon, the Temple of Peace, the Thermae, &c. Every Eoman brickmaker had his peculiar mark, which he was enjoined by law to affix to his work, such as the figure of a god, a plant, or an animal, encircled by his own name ; often with the name of the place, of the consuls, or of the owner of the kiln or the brickfield.
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