Item Petrie MSS 5.7.39a [upper left] - [286] Sakiyeh at Luxor

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Petrie MSS 5.7.39a [upper left]

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[286] Sakiyeh at Luxor

Date(s)

  • 1881-1882 (Creation)

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1 photograph

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Scope and content

-A saqiya (mechanical water lifting device) in use in the area of Luxor.
Caption reads:
'Sakiyeh at Luxor
The bullocks in going round, driven by a boy seated behind,
turn a horizontal wheel which gears in a vertical wheel,
this latter raises an endless band of waterpots.'.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

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Petrie reference number

286