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    "pk": 4007,
    "title": "Mud-Brick",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Made from a mixture of silt, clay, sand, and straw formed into regular molded units, unfired mud-bricks were the primary construction material employed in ancient Egypt—being quite literally the most basic of building blocks for all levels of domestic structures, from simple one-room buildings to lavishly decorated palace complexes, as well as administrative and storage structures, and even early phases of temples. Modern methods of mud-brick fabrication accord with ancient evidence, suggesting that the production of unfired mud-brick has remained a stable technology through the millennia. Ancient evidence concerning mud-brick not only illuminates mud-brick production organization, but also highlights the symbolic significance of bricks in religious contexts, especially relating to birth and death.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "mud brick"
        },
        {
            "word": "sun dried brick"
        },
        {
            "word": "unfired brick"
        },
        {
            "word": "adobe"
        },
        {
            "word": "domestic architecture"
        },
        {
            "word": "palace"
        },
        {
            "word": "house"
        },
        {
            "word": "mold"
        },
        {
            "word": "construction material"
        },
        {
            "word": "production"
        },
        {
            "word": "birth brick"
        },
        {
            "word": "magic brick"
        },
        {
            "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies"
        },
        {
            "word": "Other Architecture"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Material Culture, Art and Architecture",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7v84d6rh",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Virginia L.",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Emery",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2008-08-20T07:00:00Z",
    "date_accepted": "2008-08-20T07:00:00Z",
    "date_published": "2009-08-27T07:00:00Z",
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            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/4007/galley/2583/download/"
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}