Question

why were the inner brick walls of the great bath lined with bitumen
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Answer 1

Answer:

The center piece of the Great Bath was the pool, a sunken rectangular basin approximately 12 × 7 m and 2.4 m deep” (Mays 2010). The bath has an inner lining of burned brick, followed by a layer of bitumen, and then puddled clay between two brick walls, in order to prevent water-logging (Webster, 1962).

Answer 2

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The center piece of the Great Bath was the pool, a sunken rectangular basin approximately 12 × 7 m and 2.4 m deep” (Mays 2010). The bath has an inner lining of burned brick, followed by a layer of bitumen, and then puddled clay between two brick walls, in order to prevent water-logging