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Uphill MSS 4.7
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- c. 1990-2010s (Creación)
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1 folder
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The estate of Eric Uphill.
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Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.
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"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.
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