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Water technology database
Database coordinator: Andrew Wilson
| No. | Document | Line | Site | Area | Category | Word | Type | Description |
| Machines | ||||||
| 523. | SB I 4485 | 9 | Arsinoite Nome | μηχανή | saqiya | water-lifting. Unspecified plural. Irons for the machine.* | 630 | 630 | 1 | |||||||
| 524. | SB I 4735 | 3 | Arsinoite Nome | μηχανή | saqiya | water-lifting. | 323 | 642 | 1 | |||||||
| 525. | SB I 4812 | 9 | Arsinoite Nome | μηχανή | saqiya? | (Too fragmentary) | 582 | 641 | 1 | |||||||
| 526. | SB I 5300 | 1 | Arsinoite Nome | μηχανικόν ὄργανον | Unspecified | Possibly plural. Parts named in abbreviation. | 323 | 642 | 1 | |||||||
| 527. | SB I 5300 | 26 | Arsinoite Nome | τύμπανον | water-wheel? | 323 | 642 | 1 | ||||||||
| 528. | SB IV 7330 | 3 | Arsinoite Nome | μηχανή | saqiya | Irrigation. Ekchyseis mentioned. | 101 | 200 | 1 | |||||||
| 529. | SB IV 7369 | 14 | Hermopolite Nome | ὑδροπάροχος | Unspecified | irrigation. One who furnishes water (for irrigation?). | 512 | 512 | 1 | |||||||
| 530. | SB V 8006 | 16 | Arsinoite Nome | σίφων | pump | water-lifting. | 201 | 300 | 1 | |||||||
| 531. | SB V 8006 | 16 | Arsinoite Nome | σίφων | pump | Unspecified plural. | 201 | 300 | 1 | |||||||
| 532. | SB V 8006 | 16 | Arsinoite Nome | σίφων | pump | Unspecified plural.* | 201 | 300 | 1 | |||||||
| 533. | SB VI 9302 | 4 | μηχανή | saqiya | Irrigation of uninundated land. Application to Ptolemy for use of the mechane because of drought. | -300 | -201 | 1 | ||||||||
| 534. | SB VI 9473 | 6-7 | τεκτονικὰ μηχανικὰ ξύλα | saqiya? | Loading of animals with the timber. | 249 | 268 | 1 | ||||||||
| 535. | SB VIII 9699 | 26; 311; 504; 508 | Hermopolite Nome | ὄργανον | Unspecified | Water-lifting. Drives the org. with the mechanarios. Might this be a sowing-machine? | 78 | 79 | 1 | |||||||
| 536. | SB VIII 9699 | 303 | Hermopolite Nome | κηλωνοστάσιον | part: base | Plinths for the kelonostasion. | 78 | 79 | 1 | |||||||
| 537. | SB VIII 9699 | 306; 316 | Hermopolite Nome | ὑδραγωγός | part: irrigation canal | Water-lifting. Unspecified plural. | 78 | 79 | 1 | |||||||
| 538. | SB VIII 9699 | 434 | Hermopolite Nome | κηλώνειον | shaduf | A builder building the keloneia of Tomis(?). | 78 | 79 | 1 | |||||||
| 539. | SB VIII 9699 | 610 | Hermopolite Nome | μηχανή | saqiya | Purchase of palm-fibre ropes for the m. | 78 | 79 | 1 | |||||||
| 540. | SB VIII 9699 | passim | Hermopolite Nome | κυκλευτής | water-wheel installation operator | A kukleutes who kukleuei the organon together with the mechanarios. | 78 | 79 | 1 | |||||||
| 541. | SB VIII 9699 | passim | Hermopolite Nome | ἀντλῶ | Unspecified | 78 | 79 | 1 | ||||||||
| 542. | SB VIII 9900 | 8 | Oxyrhynchite Nome | μηχανή | saqiya? | (Too fragmentary) possible mention of ironwork. | 201 | 300 | 1 | |||||||
About the database
This database of papyrological evidence was compiled by Dr Myrto Malouta as part of her work as Research Assistant for OXREP between 2005 and 2008. It shows more than 600 references to water-lifting devices and irrigation facilities from Egypt, with an emphasis on the Oxyrhynchite Nome, dating between 300 BC and AD 700. It can be used as an accompaniment to M. Malouta and A.I. Wilson (2013), 'Mechanical irrigation: water-lifting devices in the archaeological evidence and in the Egyptian papyri', in: A.K. Bowman and A.I. Wilson, The Roman Agricultural Economy, OUP, Oxford.
To cite this database please use the following reference: Malouta, M. (2008). OXREP Water-lifting technology database. Version 1.0. http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/water_technology_database. Accessed (date).
Webdesign, databasedesign: Miko Flohr, 2010-2024. Content: OXREP, 2005-2024.
