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With one hand on the outside and one on the inside, the potter's hands would press together and form the upward curve of the hydria. [7] At the shoulder level, the potter would smooth the clay inwards, forming the base of the neck. [7] The shoulder was then smoothed out with a rib tool to remove any throwing striations. [7]
The bull was said to have been hollow, and made entirely of bronze, with a door in one side. [3] Allegedly, the condemned were locked inside the device (with their head aligned within the bull's head), and a fire was set beneath it, heating the metal to the extent that the person within slowly roasted to death. The bull was equipped with an ...
Marquise de Brinvilliers being tortured.. Water torture was used extensively and legally by the courts of France from the Middle Ages to the 17th and 18th centuries. It was known as being put to "the question", with the ordinary question involving the forcing of one gallon (eight pints or approximately 3.6 litres) of water into the stomach and the extraordinary question involving the forcing ...
It was built to supply water to the Great Mosque of Hama one kilometre away (0.63 mile) [3] and it also supplied a public hammam (bath-house) and fountains, houses, and gardens nearby. [18] A construction date of 1361 CE is established by an inscription on its aqueduct, stating year 763 of the Islamic calendar.
The researchers believe instead of water, this chultún may have been used to store food and plants. Inside the chultún, a large cavern was built from layers of crushed coral and clay and ash ...
The term noria is commonly used for devices which use the power of moving water to turn the wheel. [3] For devices powered by animals, the usual term is saqiyah or saqiya. [4] Other types of similar devices are grouped under the name of chain pumps. However, the names of traditional water-raising devices used in the Middle East, India, Spain ...
In ancient Rome, the Cloaca Maxima, considered a marvel of engineering, discharged into the Tiber. Public latrines were built over the Cloaca Maxima. [32] Beginning in the Roman era a water wheel device known as a noria supplied water to aqueducts and other water distribution systems in major cities in Europe and the Middle East.
The Abzû or Apsû (Sumerian: ๐๐ช abzû; Akkadian: ๐๐ช apsû), also called E ngar (Cuneiform: ๐, LAGAB×HAL; Sumerian: engar; Akkadian: engurru – lit. ab = 'water' zû = 'deep', recorded in Greek as แผπασฯν Apasแนn [1]), is the name for fresh water from underground aquifers which was given a religious fertilising quality in ancient near eastern cosmology, including ...