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The key identifies an old tower with a damaged Arabic inscription, palace remains, a church converted into a mosque, a cotton or calico bleaching ground, cemeteries, mosques, a Greek monastery, the custom house and places associated with slaughter and trade. It is a compact but highly informative plan of an Egyptian river-port rarely mapped in such detail in the eighteenth century. 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Niebuhr shows the “so-called new castle” on the west side of the river, a round inhabited fort built, according to its inscription, in 1116 AH \/ c.1704–05, with a lower battery of brass and iron cannon and five smaller guns above. Opposite, on the east bank, he records an older unnamed castle and battery, deserted and associated locally with fear of spirits. The site is probably connected with the defensive-tower landscape remembered in the name Ezbet El-Borg \/ Izbat al-Burj, though Niebuhr gives no proper fort name. 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This is not a plan of Mecca itself, but a remarkable record of the organisation of pilgrimage on the ground: the Emir Hajj’s tents, his daytime quarters, small cannon, sutlers’ tents, tethering ropes for horses and camels, a poor village and country houses of prominent Cairenes are all identified. The plate captures the logistical and ceremonial world surrounding the pilgrimage, including the precious cloth to be carried to Mecca. The original explanatory text pages are not available with this map, but we include a legend sheet transcribing the original German key with English translation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53342831083867,"sku":"P-6-111800","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111800a.jpg?v=1780947939"},{"product_id":"verschiedene-wassermaschinen-egyptian-sakia-shaduf-water-well-niebuhr-fehrt-1773-p-6-111801","title":"Verschiedene Wassermaschinen—Egyptian sakia shaduf—water well—Niebuhr\/Fehrt 1773","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eVerschiedene Wassermaschinen in Egypten [Various water-machines in Egypt]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA superb technical plate showing Egyptian water-raising machines and related hydraulic devices observed by Niebuhr. Rather than presenting Egypt only through ruins and monuments, it records the practical technologies that sustained agriculture and urban life: wheels, chains, wells, lifting mechanisms and animal- or hand-powered arrangements are shown in elevation, section and plan. The plate is particularly appealing as eighteenth-century engineering ethnography, documenting machines that were everyday working tools but rarely illustrated with this degree of clarity. It also complements the Cairo plan, where water supply, canals and reservoirs are crucial features. 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The subject is modest but unusually informative: Niebuhr records not a famous monument, but the mechanism of everyday production, giving the arrangement of the horse, gearing, millstones and working structure. Such plates are valuable because they show the expedition’s practical curiosity about machinery, labour and urban economy, not merely antiquities or scenery. The combination of ground plan and elevation makes the mechanism intelligible and gives the sheet strong appeal for collectors of early technology, engineering, Egypt and ethnographic travel. 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Niebuhr’s expedition was unusually attentive to practical industry, and this sheet records processes that would otherwise be almost invisible in conventional travel illustration. The plate combines cross-sections, elevations, presses and working mechanisms, placing Egyptian craft and production within the same empirical framework as the maps, city plans and antiquities. It is a strong subject for collectors interested in early industrial history, chemistry, ethnographic technology and the applied sciences of the Enlightenment. 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The plan and sections show the chambers, heating arrangements and internal layout of the oven, turning a surprising agricultural practice into a clear technical diagram. The subject has considerable charm: it combines natural history, rural economy, engineering and travel observation, and demonstrates Niebuhr’s interest in how things actually worked. It is far more than a novelty image, offering documentary evidence of a long-established technology that fascinated European readers. 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Niebuhr treats headgear as a visual language of rank, office, religion, ethnicity and locality: Turks, Janissaries, Bostanjis, Tartars, Kurds, Copts, Greek clergy, Armenians, Syrian Christians, Druze women and Sinai Bedouin dress are all distinguished by the form, material and wrapping of their head coverings. The plates are attractive individually, but much stronger as a continuous taxonomy of eighteenth-century identity and costume across the Ottoman and neighbouring worlds. The original explanatory text pages are not available with this group, but we include a legend sheet transcribing the original German key for all forty-eight figures with English translation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53342831346011,"sku":"P-6-111805","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111805a.jpg?v=1780947938"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/de-fehrt-antoine-jean.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}