Identity area
Reference code
Uphill MSS 4.7
Title
Date(s)
- c. 1990-2010s (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
The estate of Eric Uphill.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
"Ancient Egyptian hydraulic works c. 3150 BC to c. 600 B.C. and later c. 300-280 B.C."*
94 single-sided pages
Documentation for ancient Egyptian waterways, irrigation schemes and their mention in texts, typewritten drafts of a proposed publication(s), and the drafts for two articles published by Uphill using this documentation; see below for details. Also, one page from a related lecture and photocopied publications
Description using Uphill's section headings where appropriate:
- 'Land area inundation water heights under Senusret I', one page from a lecture given by Uphill at University College London, 15-12-2005
- Possible dates for the high flood levels after the Djoser seven year famine
- Wadi Garawi dam dating
- Estimated decline in Lake Moeris area and capacity Narmer to late Old Kingdom
- Estimated increase in Lake Moeris area and capacity Amenemhat I or Senusret I
- Estimated increase in Lake Moeris area and capacity post Amenemhat III to 450 BC
- Possible use of Lake Moeris as a water supplier
- Extent of Fayum Lake and province
- Lake Moeris in the Saite Period
- Lake Moeris entry channel
- Size and location of Lake Moeris
- Babylonia Lake
- Wadi Tumilat canal
- Possible increase in village settlements
- Twenty-Second Dynasty Nile heights
- Late Period Nile high floods
- Possible enlargement of the Nile Valley agricultural land post-Senusert III
- Estimated alluvium deposits in basins on average land area Senusert I 1950 BC - AD 1900
- Uphill, Eric P. 2010. The significance of Nile heights recorded under the Twelfth Dynasty. In El-Aguizy, Ola and Mohamed Sherif Ali (eds), Echoes of eternity: studies presented to Gaballa Aly Gaballa, 67-76 (OEB 165232), two annotated typewritten drafts, variously titled Some new information on Nile flood heights under the Twelfth Dynasty, and, The significance of Nile heights recorded under the Twelfth Dynasty
- Biahmu colossi courts
- Uphill, Eric P. 2005. Irrigation basins and cultivated land under the Twelfth Dynasty. Trabajos de Egiptología - Papers on Ancient Egypt 4, 109-127 (OEB 160921), annotated draft
- Correlation of Old Kingdom and Senusert I Nile inundation heights on fields
- Nubian Nile height figures an explanation
- Nubian spur dam positions and province divisions
- Nubian high-level Nile inundation heights in the Middle Kingdom
- Nubian reservoir capacity
- Photocopies made from publications, some annotated
*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
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Kept as received.
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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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No problems.
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These are the originals.