Item Uphill MSS 5.1.1 - Notebook with notes and statistics for buildings and irrigation systems

1 notebook

The estate of Eric Uphill.

Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.

Notebook containing manuscript notes for a project on a world history of buildings and irrigation, probably for a publication.
The sections include the following, and Uphill's headings are used when appropriate:

• World history of irrigation, arranged chronologically, pp. 1-97
  • Egyptian constructions and buildings (Narmar (Menes) irrigation system; Twelfth Dynasty additional and enlarged systems; Palace or residence cities' royal estate parks - New Kingdom; Palaces; Ka-en-Kemet. Estate wall; Great temple enclosures; Maritine canal Wadi Tumilat; Lake Moeris area
  • Also: Sumer; Babylonia; Assyria; Syria; Hittites Anatolia; Elam; Persia; Crete; Greece; Israel; India; China; Britain; Sicily; Roman Empire; Spain; Morocco; Turkey; Burma (Myanmar); Thailand; Cambodia; Mongolia; Mexico; Peru; France; Germany; Austria; Portugal; Italy; Sweden; Russia; Tibet; Vietnam and Japan
• List of world temples with area sizes, arranged chronologically, pp. 98-150
  • Temples: ancient (Egypt; Israel); Greek period temples (Syria; Lebanon); Roman Empire; Medieval temples (India; Sri Lanka; Burma (Myanmar); Thailand; Cambodia; Indonasia; China; Iraq; conspectus of Justinian I works)
• Tombs and funerary constructions, arranged chronologically, pp. 151-190
  • Egypt; Persia; China; Roman Empire; Israel; Japan; India; Turkey

Kept as received.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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These are the originals.

• Notebook, blue cloth hardcover, ruled pages, 21.5 x 15.3 cm.