«NILOMETER» İLE İLİŞKİLİ İNGILIZCE KİTAPLAR
Nilometer sözcüğünün kullanımını aşağıdaki kaynakça seçkisinde keşfedin.
Nilometer ile ilişkili kitaplar ve İngilizce edebiyattaki kullanımı ile ilgili bağlam sağlaması için küçük metinler.
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Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction
The Umayyads had built a Nilometer of the simple type used earlier in Egypt, a
graduated wall in the Nile. The Nilometer we see today was built in 861 by order
of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil (847-61). It is a rather sophisticated ...
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 1992
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The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina: Early Evidence of Egyptian ...
In the case of a mosaic from Leptis Magna the Nilometer stands on a masonry
elevation, the meaning of which is not clear (see Bonneau, pl. VI; S. Aurigemma,
The mosaics, Monuments of decorative art I; Tripolitania 7; Italy in Africa (I960),
pls.
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El Niño: Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the ...
The record of Nile levels dates back to about 3000 to 3500 B.C.; the river gauge
is called a Nilometer (Shahin 1985). Three types of Nilometers were used; the
first type consisted simply of marking the water levels on cliffs on the banks of the
...
Henry F. Diaz, Vera Markgraf, 1992
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Water in the Cultic Worship of Isis and Sarapis
This symbolic role played by the Nilometer at Alexandria might help to explain
the multiplicity of these facilities found at the Temple of Philae at least during its
late Ptolemaic and Roman stages. Normally those sanctuaries in Egypt which
have ...
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Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and ...
Qian}; ': . Nilometer. Fig. 2 God Nile with 16 putti, each one royal cubit height (
From Freeman and Ray 2000: 147). Nilometer. Fig. 3 Wall or corridor Nilometer (
From Said 1993: 153, Fig. 2.25). Nilometer. Fig. 4 Well Nilometer (Drawing by Z.
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Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text
An inscription with a similar message was placed over the entrance doorway, so
that those on foot visiting the island and the mosque also viewed his name.25 He
also restored the adjacent Nilometer (miqyas al-ntl) and placed his name and ...
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Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo
But since the perfuming of the Nilometer is also discussed without any mention of
its being either reinstituted or newly introduced, it seems plausible that the
ceremony was in existence prior to 516/1122.111 When was the ceremony
actually ...
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The Nature of Ottoman Egypt: Irrigation, Environment, and ...
southern tip of the island lay the Nilometer (miqyas al-NV), the device used to
measure and to define the "official" level of the annual flood for purposes of
taxation and agriculture. The second major irrigation work near the island was
the mouth ...
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
The nilometer is said, by several Arabian writers, to have been first set up, for this
purpose, by Joseph during his regency, in Egypt : the measure of it was 16 cubits,
this being the height of the increase of the Nile, which was necessary to the ...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ...
NILOMETER, or Niloscope, an instrument used among the ancients to measure
the height of the water of the Nile in its overflowings ; anciently called Mikeas, or
rather Mykeas, from Mi'tow, to roar, or make a hollow sound, alluding to the noise
...
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington), 1839
«NILOMETER» TERİMİNİ İÇEREN HABERLER
Ulusal ve uluslararası basında konuşulanları ve
Nilometer teriminin aşağıdaki haberlerde hangi bağlamda kullanıldığını keşfedin.
Attrition in the climate trenches
It uses 1300 year Nilometer records and a Holocene spanning El Niño -- Southern Oscillation proxy to suggest that the biblical Joseph was ... «American Thinker, May 15»
Obama and the Syrian drought
The 'Nilometer' – known as al-Miqyas in Arabic - in Cairo dates back to the Arab conquest of Egypt. The Cairo nilometer has an inner stilling ... «American Thinker, May 15»
6 Unexpectedly Awesome Monuments from Old Cairo
The Nilometer, which is believed to have been built after the Arab conquest of Egypt, was used to measure the flood levels of the great Nile. «StepFeed, May 15»
How the Quest for a Perfectly Rational Calendar Created a 13th Month
[A Nilometer on Rhoda Island, Cairo. Credit: Baldiri]. The Egyptians also figured out that the year isn't always exactly 365 days, so they added ... «Gizmodo, Nis 15»
Taxes were a burden in ancient Egypt, too
Most Greek temples in Egypt featured a Nilometer; a 20-30 meter-deep well dug inside the temple and linked with the River Nile through a ... «The Cairo Post, Mar 15»
Triumph of the Innovation Economy – Part 2
To anticipate the seasonal flood, and to try to predict its volume, they created a flood gauge called the Nilometer with which they could monitor ... «Innovation Excellence, Oca 15»
Obsession with honouring the past is drowning out our future
The nilometer is just north of what is now the Aswan Dam, on Elephantine Island in the Nile. The description, by the ancient Greek geographer, ... «Irish Examiner, Kas 14»
"A city is more than just the sum of its previous behaviours"
Unbeknownst to the population, they had a Nilometer, a device to predict the level of flood water. Based on measuring stations secreted in ... «Dezeen, Eki 14»
How to speak the language of money
But the priests were cheating, because they had something else too: they had a nilometer. This was a secret device made to measure and ... «The Australian Financial Review, Ağu 14»
Seven Lessons In Economic Leadership From Ancient Egypt
It is not a process intended to deceive, but, like the Nilometer, it confines knowledge to a priesthood—the priesthood of people who can speak ... «Forbes, Ağu 14»
