ID: 700089851 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700089851	Record Type: Built Work

Aswan Low Dam (buttress dam; design: William Willcocks; engineers: Benjamin Baker and Joh...; 1899-1902; Aswān (Miṣr, Africa, World, Top of the TGN hierarchy); )

Note: Gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt; lies 6 km downstream from the Aswan High Dam. It holds back about 4.9 billion cubic metres of water from the tail of the Nile flood in late autumn. Once one of the largest dams in the world, it is 2,142 metres long and is pierced by 180 sluices that formerly passed the whole Nile flood, with its heavy load of silt.

Titles:

Aswan Low Dam (preferred,C,U,English-P,,N)

Old Aswan Dam (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

buttress dam [300006087] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, hydraulic structures, <hydraulic structures by function>, dams (hydraulic structures), <dams by form>)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: 1899-1902

Creator Display:

design: William Willcocks; engineers: Benjamin Baker and John Aird; contractor: John Aird & Co. [preferred,BWR]

engineer Willcocks, William (British civil engineer, 1852-1932) [500781757]

engineer Baker, Benjamin (British architect, engineer, 1840-1907) [500103091]

engineer Aird, John (British civil engineer, 1833-1911) [500781758]

Locations:

Current: Aswān [7000122] (Geographic)

Address Note: +30.2210464,+31.233333; Aswan, Egypt

Other: Lake Nasser [1120187] (Geographic)

Display Materials: gravity masonry buttress dam; rubble masonry, faced with red ashlar granite

	masonry (building materials) [300015332]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, building materials, <masonry and masonry units>)

	rubblework [300262576]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, building materials, <masonry and masonry units>, masonry (building materials))

Dimensions: 2142 metres (7,027 feet) long

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness,undetermined)

Related Works:

	associated with .... Aswan High Dam [700036681]
	..........rock-fill dam; lead engineer: Osman Ahmed Osman; completed in 1970; Aswān (Miṣr, Africa, World, Top of the TGN hierarchy);

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: fortifications, transportation, bridges, barriers, military, urban planning, and engineering works

Sources and Contributors:
Aswan Low Dam	........ [BWR,VP]
	........ BWR database (2010-) BWR3734358
Old Aswan Dam	........ [VP]
	........ UNESCO online (1998-)

Subject: ....... [VP,BWR]

....................... BWR database (2010-) BWR3734358

....................... BWR SSID (2010-) 3734358

....................... BWR DSSC ID (2010-) 7224

....................... BWR-13 Data Reconciliation (2020-2021)

....................... Avery Index2: BWR Contribution (2010-) 691111

Note:
English	..... [BWR,VP]
	..... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)