TAA i.3.23.10

                                         (IX)

type of joint was employed, such as “the square or smooth

joint, in which the edges of the boards to be jointed” were

“planed straight and square to the faces (then probably

with an adze <which took the place of a plane in those days>, and finished with a grit-stone smoother),

after which the edges were glued and rubbed into

close contact; to hold the edges together until the

glue was hard”, clamps of some kind were without[?]

used. (1) But the joint more generally was used for joining

<(1)
See Note upon

glue:- Lucas

The Tomb of Tut.Ankh.Amen, 

Appendix II, p.166>

up the material forming the chief beam, the panels

and dado, or other work of a like nature, was the

rebated glued joint, strengthened with either wooden

dowels, or cross-grained tongues inserted into mortises at

intervals.

          The plain mitre joint was only employed in special

cases, such as the extreme angle between the chief

beam over the doorway and the vertical framing of the 

doorway. 

          Practically all the post and panel sections were

held together by means of mortise and tenon joints, – i.e.

“Where the end of a wooden member is cut [parallel to the

grain] to fit into a rectangular hole in a second

member, the joint is called a mortise and tenon joint;

the hole being the mortise and the fitted end [parallel to

the grain], the tenon.” And, it is not without interest to note