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Gulf of Suez, looking out from 'Ayún Músa. These complicated wheels and spars are a mixture of Egyptian shádoof and sâkiyeh (water-wheel), by which the precious water is raised from the wells.

Gulf of Suez, looking out from 'Ayún Músa. These complicated wheels an...

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Scene in a Jaffa garden. Two women engaged in working a sâkiyeh, a clumsy machine for raising water from a well to fill a reservoir. On the branch of the pomegranate there is a chameleon.

Scene in a Jaffa garden. Two women engaged in working a sâkiyeh, a cl...

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The "Virgin's tree." At the time of the inauguration of the Suez Canal this tree was presented to the Empress Eugénie by the Khedive. The garden in which it stands is watered by means of a double sakîyeh supplied from a reservoir fed by springs.

The "Virgin's tree." At the time of the inauguration of the Suez Cana...

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A well in a garden of Haifa, Showing a machine, called a sâkiyeh, raising water to fill the adjacent tank, on the right.

A well in a garden of Haifa, Showing a machine, called a sâkiyeh, rais...

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A wayside well. Shaded by a fine specimen of the Acacia Nilotica. The water is raised by means of jars attached to a wheel, the sâkiyeh.

A wayside well. Shaded by a fine specimen of the Acacia Nilotica. The...

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A water-wheel (sâkiyeh) on the canal. When the creaking wooden wheels are in motion the earthenware jars, strung to ropes made of palm fibre, revolve, alternately dripping into the water and emptying themselves into a trough connected with a reservoir.

A water-wheel (sâkiyeh) on the canal. When the creaking wooden wheels...

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Sakiyeh, Egypt - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sakiyeh, Egypt - Drawing. Public domain image.

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