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Uphill MSS 4.7

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Hydraulics II: 'Ancient Egyptian hydraulic works'

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  • c. 1990-2010s (Creación)

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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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