The Romans used raw brick
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As far as housing is concerned, throughout the republican historical phase (3rd-1st century BC), the Romans used raw brick in the form of large bricks (the famous lidium bricks, cited and described accurately from Vitruvius and Pliny in their literary works: clay often mixed with straw, manipulated and transformed into regular artifacts similar to oriental bricks simply dried in the sun) while they use stone materials in isodome masonry and the various opus murari (based on cement conglomerate and more or less regularized stone facings) in public architecture.
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