Hi Hermione ...
Here is precisely what it says ... or at least here are two pictures of what it says ...
Now no offence but I challenge anyone to take what is written here and even make an attempt to begin to measure the fields of Egypt after the inundation. It gives no sighting points ... no starting point and no distances ... It is in other words ... totally useless.
I mean really and I quote " ... But by means of exact area measurements and verbal description, the status quo was re-established. Absolutely malarkey and as I said totally worthless and how this could be published in a book of surveying leaves me shaking my head ... The author was a Latin expert NOT AN ENGINEER AND I must say obviously not a student of Ancient Egypt either ..
Cheers
Don Barone
" If everything is simply a coincidence what then is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything in the ancient world ?" db