A nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level during the annual flood season. There were three main types of nilometers...

reign of caliph Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik of the Umayyad dynasty, a nilometer was built on the southern tip of the island opposite the mouth of the...

A nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and the water level during the annual flood season. There are two nilometers at Elephantine...

levels of flow required from the annual flood. At Elephantine the official nilometer, a measuring device, was carefully monitored to predict the level of the...

century. In 861, on the orders of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil, a Nilometer was built on Roda Island near Fustat. Although it was repaired and given...

El Manial (Egyptian Arabic: المنيل  pronounced [elˈmænjæl], "the nilometer") is a district of Cairo, located on Rhoda Island in the Nile. The El Manial...

inundation festivals, mud figures of Osiris were planted with barley. Nilometer Egyptian Public Works Aswan Dam#Irrigation scheme Water supply and sanitation...

temple with two by four columns. One of the two and the best preserved nilometer is associated with the Temple of Satet. Wikimedia Commons has media related...

al-sawdāʾ), adopted in the Abbasid period and fixed by the measure used in the Nilometer on Rawda Island at 54.04 cm (21+1⁄4 in). It is also known as the common...

There, he also supervised the construction of the large Nilometer, called the New Nilometer, on the Rawda Island (in Old Cairo) at the behest of the...

the Coptic calendar. Egyptian & Coptic calendars Egyptian units of time Nilometer Alternative representations of the inundation season include , , , , ...

the interior walls Wadjet and Nekhbet, the Two Ladies flank the pharaoh Nilometer for measuring the height of the Nile River Relief Relief Relief Detail...

in the river were uncovered again during droughts in 2018 and in 2022. Nilometer Damonoske, Camila (24 August 2018). "Drought In Central Europe Reveals...

Stone) includes measurements of the height of the annual Nile flood (see Nilometer), the inundation, details of festivals (such as Sed festivals), taxation...

coloration of the granite, which explains the value of this granite island as "nilometer" - according to Alejandro de Humboldt. These lines of distinct coloring...

bottles dating from the days of Roman Egypt. At this site there is another Nilometer used to measure the level of the river waters. On the opposite side of...

الفرغاني), who was an Orthodox Christian, the same engineer who designed the Nilometer. The historian al-Maqrizi lists the mosque's construction start date as...

of a stream, lake or reservoir relative to a specified vertical datum Nilometer – Structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level Harrelson...

Several historic monuments are located in the island, including the Nilometer, built in 861 on the orders of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil. Although...

Afghanistan). Al-Mutawakkil (r. 847–861) orders the construction of a Nilometer on Rhoda Island in central Cairo, supervised by the Persian astronomer...

expedition was the assistant treasurer Sahathor. Farther south, three nilometer records are known from Kumna in Nubia that are explicitly dated to regnal...

needed] The Nilometer at Fustat, near modern Cairo, built in 861, has elaborate and ornate stonework and discharging arches. The Nilometer in Cairo, built...

listed stone urn. 2,000 years old it originally formed part of an Egyptian nilometer. The Museum of the Queen's Own Hussars based at the hospital closed in...

year to year and the difficulty of maintaining a sufficiently accurate Nilometer and record in prehistoric Egypt has caused other scholars to doubt that...

country from invasion and also was said to have built a pyramid and a nilometer at Memphis. Sometimes claimed to be a cousin of Charoba and her immediate...

end of Rawda Island on the Nile in Cairo, Egypt. It stands next to the nilometer that dates back to 861 CE. The one story palace was built in 1851 by Hassan...

ceremony took place two or three days after the ceremonial 'anointing of the Nilometer' (Takhliq al-Miqyas) on the nearby Roda Island, which occurred when the...

Aphroditê; Latopolis; a City of Hawks; Apollonospolis 48 Syenê; Elephantinê; nilometer 49 the First Cataract, above Elephantinê; settlement Philae, holding an...

planted vineyards and palm trees. He erected a nilometer in the new city, although it was replaced by the nilometer built on the Nile river island of al-Rawda...

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