More Bricks...
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Dodgers...bottom of fifth...Angels 4-1...well, after looking for a standard mud brick size for the Sumerians, and Egyptians, and Andeans, I finally found one when not really looking: the mud bricks of the Indus Valley culture...two down, two on after back to back walks...pitching change...Cole began, Pena continued to this inning, the fifith...Dodgers made out...to top of sixth...Garneau K...Ward up...pinch hit walk...Fletcher up...beat the shift...base hit...Ward makes it to third...Trout up...Trout earlier had solo home run...Ontani not in the line up, but had a pinch hit rbi, the first Angel score...Trout, broken bat line drive out...Upton up...oh, need more runs against the Dodgers!...heck...ball run down on the warning track...to bottom of sixth...
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The ancient Egyptians and the Indus Valley Civilization also used mudbrick extensively, as can be seen in the ruins of Buhen, Mohenjo-daro, and Harappa, for example. In the Indus Valley Civilization, all bricks corresponded to sizes in a perfect ratio of 4:2:1, and made use of the decimal system. The ratio for brick dimensions 4:2:1 is even today considered optimal for effective bonding.
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Brick
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Ian Whitelaw (2007) holds that 'The Mohenjo-Daro ruler is divided into units corresponding to 1.32 inches (33.5 mm) and these are marked out in decimal subdivisions with amazing accuracy—to within 0.005 of an inch. Ancient bricks found throughout the region have dimensions that correspond to these units.'[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions_and_discoveries_of_the_Indus_Valley_Civilisation
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The bricks discovered were made of red sand, clay, stones and were baked at very high temperature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harappa
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Pollock K...Anderson pitching for Angels...one down, Seager up...ball off the wall for a long single...runner goes to third...oh, Fletcher tries for play at plate...throw late...Angels 4-2...batter W...bases loaded...Anderson relieved...base hit fpr Peterson...bases still loaded...Angels 4-3...grounder to Pujols, throw home, out at home...two down...
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But while things were going well for the Harappans, they were really good. So far, more than 1,052 Harappan cities and settlements have been found, mainly in the general region of the Indus River and its tributary rivers. At their peak, they are estimated to have numbered five million souls.
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One of the most striking features of Harrapan society was their propensity for standardization. Pottery and seals use surprisingly similar proportions. Bricks are virtually identical in size, shape, weight, and material, even among different cities. Weighs used in trading are also virtually identical. The level of standardization is so high, in fact, that some researchers claim it could only be the product of a single state authority enforcing them on all communities in the area.
Remains of a washroom drainage system in Lothal. Notice the quality bricks, millennia old, used for its construction.
Image via Wikimedia
https://www.zmescience.com/science/indus-valley-civilization-harappan/
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ground to Fletcher, force out at third...Angels 4-3...to top of seventh...so, I have it that the Egyptians didn't standardized their bricks, one source for that, so it's iffy...I don't know if the Sumarians did, or the Andeans...thing about the Andeans, each brick is stamped, like with the individual's brand, or family/clan crest...Calhoun first pitch swinging waps a home run!...Angels 5-3...Romans stamped their bricks...the Legionairs put to work building when not waring...
https://www.ancient.eu/image/5559/roman-stamped-bricks/
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Simmons foul fly out...one down...Upton up...found the Roman bricks looking for the Moche's...Upton makes out...two down...Renigfo up...waps one over Bellinger's head...double...
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As seen here, each brick carried the distinctive mark/brand of its manufacturer/provider
http://travel.davidmbyrne.com/peru/
I've only read that the Andeans marked their bricks, but here at tourist's page, find some...as many thousands of these imprints there must be, I wonder if they are anywhere collected...Angels made out...to bottom of seventh...Muncie K...two down...Pollock on, on tough play...ball short hops Albert...E5...pop up...to top of eighth...
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The mudbrick stamp or brick seal of Mesopotamia are impression or stamp seals made upon bricks or mudbrick. The inscribed seal is in mirror reverse on the 'mold', mostly with cuneiform inscriptions, and the foundation mudbricks are often part of the memorializing of temples, or other structures, as part of a "foundation deposit", a common honoring or invocation to a specific god or protector.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudbrick_stamp
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Buildings excavated between the two pyramid-mounds include many large residences with courtyards enclosed by walls. The fields around the site are laid out in a regular grid pattern of small rectangular plots often with a small adobe viewing platform, which suggests some sort of state supervision and control by the elite (Kuraka) class. Moche agriculture benefitted from an extensive system of canals, reservoirs, and aqueducts, so that the land could support a population of around 25,000.
https://www.ancient.eu/Moche_Civilization/
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I find it suspect wherever I read that these towns with temples/pyramids/dwellings all made from 'millions' of mud bricks, somehow only have '25,000' population...the Indus Valley population is estimated in the millions...now, the Mayans in Mexico too, from the Lidar findings...the thing that's hard to picture, is millions of ancients...just millions and millions...nowadays, with billions about, it's easy to picture...but the few archaeological remains belie just how extensive ancient populations were...the Sumerian flood myth has it, the gods were annoyed with humanity making too much noise, so they sent a flood to quiet us down...sort of a comic book like Thanos thing...the Great Pyramid with its millions of limestone bricks an indicator of the millions that likely lived in Egypt at the time...people have been crowded together for a long time...Angels made out...to bottom of eighth...Peterson up...two down...fly out to Trout...to top of ninth...Calhoun up...base hit...a double!...Simmons up...Dodger stadium sold out...53,000 or so...I'm not sure of the import of the Indus Valley culture using a ratio to make bricks...an odd culture...a lookalike to Caral in Peru, sorta, I'm thinking...I dunno...lol...'I'm not paid to have ideas!', my refrain of late on reflecting on my day to day musings!...uneconomic activities have dubious merit!...professional baseball, sports, have a kind of lottery ticket merit...hmmph...maybe making a brick was like submitting a lotto ticket!...some lucky winner...Angels make out...to bottom of ninth...fingers crossed on both hands!...three outs to go...one down...4-2-1...so, a brick might be twice as long as it is wide, and one fourth of its length thick...the Sumerian bricks were flat on the bottom, rounded, sorta, on top...cant follow that either...did they squash together!...and where did the Indus people get the fire wood to kiln dry their bricks?...they did most all of them, making them waterproof, and usable to this day...where the Sumerians could only do a few kiln dried...oh, base hit by Albert...Bellinger on third, got on with W, Turner on second...heck...just one down...have to walk the next batter...all in to get the double play...but no, Muncie up and being pitched to...1-1 the count...2-1...3-1...bad call on change up...oh, 3-2...fly ball sac...Angels 5-4...runner stays at second...maybe this will work out...pinch hitter has to come up for pitcher's spot...Hernandez up...1-1 the count...2-1...base hit...Calhoun throws the runner out at home plate...Dodger's can't challenge, used their challenge up...a walk off defensive throw for Calhoun!!!...Angels 5-4...'you can put a halo over this one!'...
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DavidDavid
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