It has been taken for a kind of nilometer, for a sculptor's or modeller's stand, or a painter's easel for an altar with four superimposed tables, or a sort of pedestal bearing four door-lintels, for a series of four columns placed one behind another, of which the capitals only are visible, one above the other, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)] Reference

He made no motion to return to the nilometer entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Chase] Reference

The nilometer built by the Calif Maouya is still extant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

“The nilometer on Elephantine Island,” Kira murmured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Chase] Reference

Or we can spend precious hours trying to find and steal a boat and cross a flooding river to the nilometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Chase] Reference

At this time of year, the nilometer should have been mostly dry, the waters of the Nile receding by October.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Chase] Reference

With the Nile rising all around them, she was willing to bet that the water filling the cavern beneath the nilometer would be cold and fast-moving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Chase] Reference

This island had once boasted not only a nilometer, which measured the rise and fall of flood waters, but also a well that had been used by Erastosthenes in 1230 B.C. to calculate the diameter of the Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [From This Beloved Hour]

I saw, also, that its stream was at a height, different from its present mark upon the nilometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage] Reference

There is a long flight of steps there (a nilometer?), on which Rā resteth when he determineth to prolong life to mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians] Reference

Temples like this one with a nilometer set the level of taxation, depending on the water level and therefore the estimated agricultural yield.    From Wordnik.com.  [bioneural.net]

This statue wears the high bonnet usually called the corn-measure, in the front of which is a projection bearing the figure of a nilometer; the same is upon the bonnets of the two others: the arms are covered with hieroglyphics, deeply cut in the sand-stone, and well executed; the statue measures seven yards across the shoulders, and cannot, therefore, if in an upright posture, be less than from sixty-five to seventy feet in height: the ear is one yard and four inches in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

According to the levels carved into the nilometer’s steps, the Nile was already beginning to recede.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Chase] Reference

“It’s flooded,” Khefar said, arcing his flashlight over the water cresting the top of the nilometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Chase] Reference

There were also strangers whom I had not met before — men of elegant address, and in rich apparel, each with the signet of his office on his left hand; among others, the lord of the nilometer, who reports the progress of the elevation of the river in the annual overflows, and by which all Lower Egypt is governed in its agricultural work; the president of the engravers on hard stones, an officer of trust and high honor; the governors of several nomes, in their gold collars and chains; the lord of the house of silver; the president of architects; the lord of sculptors; the president of the school of art and color; with other men of dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage] Reference

The nilometer of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

“We need to go to Satet’s nilometer,” Kira said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Chase] Reference