INDEX.

Arsinoë, 25

Arsinoite Nome, 48, 82

Bahr Yûsuf, 9 et seq.

Biahmu, ruins of, 76, 83; supposed quay at, 85

Birket-el-Qurûn, 6-9, 49, 96; area of, 7; evaporation, 9

Brugsch Pasha, 39, 93

Canal, the Ibrahimîyah, 10; ruins of two ancient canals, 99

Crocodilopolis, 25, 72

Crops in the Fayûm, 17

Diodorus, 21, 27

Fayûm, the, 5 et seq.; area of the Lake Fayûm, 67; derivation of name, 24; fisheries in the, 18; geological history of, 61; situation of, 5

Hawârah, the pyramid of, 25

Hawârat-el-Maqta, 97, 102

Helouan, 72

Herodotus, 19

Labyrinth, the, 25, 81

Levels:—Lowest summer levels at Wâstah, 78; between Dimay and Schweinfurth’s Temple, 55

Reduced Levels:—Bahr Yûsuf, 12; Birket-el-Qurûn, 7; the Fayûm, 30; Gharaq Basin, 5; “Hêt Rozma,” 101; Lake Mœris (max. and min.) 79, 88; Lahûn Bridge, 103; Medineh, 6, 65; of Nile deposit at Hawârah, 48, 65; Nile deposit at Lahûn, 48; at Wâstah in April, 66; rock sill at Hawârah, 48; ruins of Dimay, 51; Temple of Schweinfurth, 52; Wadi Raiân, 5, 42

Linant Pasha, theories of, 28 et seq.; difficulties of his theory, 30; inaccuracies of his theory, 34

Medineh, the town of, 6, 92

Mœris, the Lake, 19 et seq.; Arabic tradition concerning, 22; identical with Fayûm depression, 48; in the time of Herodotus, 88; decline of, 95; inflow and outflow of, 77; levels of Nile and lake, 79; supposed regulators of, 73, 89; supposed maker of, 69; volume of water required to fill, 79; Cope Whitehouse’s theory concerning, 5, 37, 40; objections to his theory, 42 et seq.; Petrie’s theory, 56-60

Nile, the, gradual rise of water-level, 87, 92; the river in the days of Herodotus, 87

Petrie, W. M. F., 77, 85, 94

Pliny, 22

Ptolemy, Cl., 41, 44

Reservoirs, different methods suggested, 105 Ruins at Dimay, 51, 52

Schweinfurth, Dr., 38, 43; temple of, 51, 52

“Shad,” the town of, 92

Strabo, 21

Wadi Raiân never in direct communication with Nile, 43, 48; position of, 5; possible reservoir, 106; Western’s official description of, 42

Water-wheels, different kinds of, 14-16

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