Structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level
Measuring shaft of the nilometer on Roda Island, Cairo
A nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level during the annual flood season.[1] There were three main types of nilometers, calibrated in Egyptian cubits: (1) a vertical column, (2) a corridor stairway of steps leading down to the Nile, or (3) a deep well with culvert.[1] If the water level was low, the fertility of the floodplain would suffer. If it was too high, the flooding would be destructive. There was a specific mark that indicated how high the flood should be if the fields were to get good soil.[1][2]
Nilometers originated in pharaonic times, were also built in Roman times, and were used until the Aswan Dam rendered them obsolete in the 1960s.
^ abcHelaine Elsin (2008). "Nilometer". Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in ... p. 1753.
^Brian Fagan (1 August 2010). The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 167. ISBN 978-1-59691-780-4.
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
in the river were uncovered again during droughts in 2018 and in 2022. Nilometer Damonoske, Camila (24 August 2018). "Drought In Central Europe Reveals...
coloration of the granite, which explains the value of this granite island as "nilometer" - according to Alejandro de Humboldt. These lines of distinct coloring...
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...
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...
Stone) includes measurements of the height of the annual Nile flood (see Nilometer), the inundation, details of festivals (such as Sed festivals), taxation...
year to year and the difficulty of maintaining a sufficiently accurate Nilometer and record in prehistoric Egypt has caused other scholars to doubt that...
Afghanistan). Al-Mutawakkil (r. 847–861) orders the construction of a Nilometer on Rhoda Island in central Cairo, supervised by the Persian astronomer...
needed] The Nilometer at Fustat, near modern Cairo, built in 861, has elaborate and ornate stonework and discharging arches. The Nilometer in Cairo, built...
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...
Aphroditê; Latopolis; a City of Hawks; Apollonospolis 48 Syenê; Elephantinê; nilometer 49 the First Cataract, above Elephantinê; settlement Philae, holding an...
expedition was the assistant treasurer Sahathor. Farther south, three nilometer records are known from Kumna in Nubia that are explicitly dated to regnal...
Master's Garden is 2,000 years old and was originally part of an Egyptian nilometer. The Museum of the Queen's Own Hussars formed part of the collections...
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...
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