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 "id": "place/dar-al-miqyas",
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 "slug": "dar-al-miqyas",
 "label": {
  "ar": "دار المقياس",
  "en": "Dar al-Miqyas"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "دار كبيرة في جزيرة الروضة يُقاس فيها ارتفاع ماء النيل، بسقية عميقة وعمود رخام قائم في وسطها، ويصف الإدريسي أن زيادة النيل تكون في شهر أغشت، وأن بلوغه عشرين ذراعاً يكفي لري الأرض. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 325}",
  "en": "A large building on Rawda Island where the Nile's rise is measured in a deep basin around a standing marble column. Al-Idrisi says the flood comes in August and that a rise of twenty cubits waters the land well. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 325}"
 },
 "stub": false,
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "site",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 325 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "دار كبيرة في جزيرة الروضة يُقاس فيها ارتفاع ماء النيل، بسقية عميقة وعمود رخام قائم في وسطها. يصف الإدريسي أن زيادة النيل تكون في شهر أغشت، وأن بلوغه عشرين ذراعاً يكفي لري الأرض. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.325}"
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Nilometer: a large house on the island of al-Rawda where the height of the water of the Nile is measured, with a deep well and a marble column standing in its middle. al-Idrisi describes that the Nile rises in the month of Aghasht, and that when it reaches twenty cubits it is enough to water the land. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.325}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "en",
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    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}