Wednesday 5 February 2025
Strength of the mudbrick structures
Centre of Archaeology of the Pre-Islamic East Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Rozhdestvenka St., 12, room 222 15:00 - 17:30
The workshop is planned, first of all, to lay out the scientific base for a museum model of the urban settlement of Tell Dehaila-1 in Southern Iraq (18th-17th centuries BCE), studied by the Iraqi- Russian Multidisciplinary Project. We will be glad to see colleagues who are interested in the technical aspects of the mudbrick structures, in modern construction as well, and with any wider interests in the history of mudbrick technologies.The regularity of the workshop will be determined by the interest it may arouse.
PROGRAM:
Alexei Jankowski-Diakonoff (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences). The objectives of the workshop regarding the construction of the museum model of the Tell Dehaila urban settlement, 2nd millennium BCE
Sergei Zimin (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg Academy of Arts). Methods of field and laboratory testing of brick, mortar and stone (brick) masonry, the main provisions for calculating the strength of the brick structures
Natalia May (Hebrew University, Jerusalem). Cuneiform documents about bricks
Olga Sokolova (independent researcher, Orenburg). Modern mudbrick buildings in the Orenburg region