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Roman Bricks
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Roman Bricks
• Roman bricks came in all shapes and sizes
Roman Bricks
• Bricks were stamped with information such as:
owner/manager of kiln; maker of brick;
merchants who sold the brick; consul in
power; area in Rome where made-street, etc
Roman Bricks
• Impressions of animals walking on the drying
bricks could still be seen
Roman Bricks
• Roman bricks were exported throughout the
Roman world. High demand for these bricks!
Roman Bricks
• One Roman brick multiplied was able to
create such structures as these:
Types of ROMAN BRICK
Construction
Roman Brick
• Opus Quadratum: Is a construction technique using
bricks or blocks of stone, sometimes set without the
use of mortar. Normally the bricks were in bands
alternately with short and long sides visible.
Roman Brick
• Opus Incertum: Is a building technique using irregularly
shaped stones inserted into a core of opus caementicium.
• Opus caementicium is a construction technique using
cement, often mixed with fragments of brick and stone, caementa.
Roman Brick
• Opus Reticulatum: is a construction technique using small
pyramid shaped blocks of tufa or brick set in a core of opus
caementicium. The tufa blocks cover the surface, with the pointed
end into the cement, so the square bases form a diagonal pattern
that resembles a net, hence the name.
Roman Brick
• Opus Lateritium: A Roman form of construction in which
course-laid brickwork is used to face a core of opus caementicium.
It was the dominant form of wall construction in the imperial era.
Bricks are laid lengthwise.
Opus Quadratum
Opus Incertum
Opus Reticulatum
Opus Latericium