Machine number:
233
Country:
Age:
Location:
Modern name:
Hamá, Syria
Type:
Machine code:
Hamá
Location_getLoc:
Latitude: 35.135278
Longitude: 36.753056
General description:
water-driven or hydraulic noria
developed at Byzantine period however a mosaic from Apamea, dating to 469 AD, speculate that they are older than Byzantine. (Another opinion: they were started in the Ayyubid dynasty in around the twelfth century and enlarged in the Mamluk era of the fourteenth.)
the rims of the largest wheels consist of 120 compartments.
Lat_orig:
35° 8'7.00"N
Long_orig:
36°45'11.00"E