WCO 3 Alexander the Great A
Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WCO 3 |
| Type | Outflow water clock |
| Current Location |
Fragment a: British Museum
Fragment b: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Fragment c: Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin
Fragment d: Private Collection (NY, USA)
|
| Catalogue Numbers |
Fragment a: EA933
Fragment b: E 30890
Fragment c: ÄM 30508
Fragment d: None
|
| Provenance |
Tell el-Yahudiya (Leontopolis) |
| Date | Estimate: 332-323 BCE, time of Alexander the Great) |
| Dimensions |
Fragment a: height 44.3 cm (including attached base); width 40.5 cm (including base); depth 25 cm (including base)
Fragment b: 5 x 9 cm
Fragment c: Unknown
Fragment d: 18.3 x 17 cm
|
| Material | Granodiorite |
| Condition | Incomplete: four fragments currently in four different locations, with the largest fragment at the British Museum |
| Publications | Budge (1909b); Borchardt (1920); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (1982); Fazzini & Bianchi (1988); Walker & Higgs (2001); Stanwick (2005); Lodomez (2007) |
Content
| External registers | Single Register Present |
| External upper band of text | Present |
| External lower band(s) of text | Present |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | Not Present |
| Rim | Unknown |
| Interior markings | Columns of dots as well as three incised hieroglyphic signs, a was-sceptre, a djed pillar, and an ankh |
| Other features |
Notes
See also the entries in:
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 24 BM 933, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-17 [Fragment a] (Berlin cast of this object is ID 11.)
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 26 Louvre 30890, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-19 [Fragment b] (Berlin cast of this object is ID 13.)
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 14 Berlin 30508, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-6 [Fragment c]
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 16 Private Collection, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-8 [Fragment d]
Images
Fragment a: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA933
Fragment b: http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=3325&langue=fr
Fragment c: Lodomez (2007)
Fragment d: Unavailable
WCO 6 Philip Arrhidaeus (British Museum EA938)
Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WCO 6 |
| Type | Outflow water clock |
| Current Location | British Museum |
| Catalogue Numbers | EA938 (1873,0812.1, BS.938) |
| Provenance | Tell el-Yahudiya(?) |
| Date | Ptolemaic, 320 BCE |
| Dimensions | Height 34 cm; width 30 cm; depth 7 cm |
| Material | Granodiorite |
| Condition | One large fragment spanning rim to near the bottom |
| Publications | Birch (1850); Wiedemann (1901); Budge (1909a); Budge (1909b); Borchardt (1920); Langmann et al. (1984); Quirke and Spencer (1992) ; Clagett (1995); Grimal et al. (1998); Lodomez (2007) |
Content
| External registers | Single Register |
| External upper band of text | Present |
| External lower band(s) of text | Present |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | No |
| Rim | One complete and one partial month label in Latin and Egyptian |
| Interior markings | Two vertical lines of evenly spaced incised dots are preserved, as are parts of a djed-pillar, a was-sceptre, and an ankh. The fill line is clearly visible. |
| Other features |
Notes
Entry in the Britsh Museum online catalogue: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA938
See also the entry in: Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 28 BM 938, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-21 (Berlin cast of this object is ID 10.)
Images
See the BM catalogue entry above for views of the exterior and interior. Langmann et al. (1984) includes a view of the rim.
WC? 22 British Museum, London EA21736
Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WC? 22 BM EA21736 |
| Type | ?Outflow waterclock |
| Current Location | British Museum |
| Catalogue Numbers | EA21736 |
| Provenance | Egypt |
| Date | Ptolemaic Period |
| Dimensions | Height 14 cm; width 11.5 cm |
| Material | Granodiorite |
|
Condition |
Fragment |
| Publications | None known |
Content
| External registers | Unknown |
| External upper band of text | Unknown |
| External lower band(s) of text | Unknown |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | Unknown |
| Rim | Unknown |
| Interior markings | Unknown |
| Other features | Unknown |
Notes
Donated to the British Museum by Rev Greville John Chester
See also Schomberg, A. Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 41 BM EA 21736, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-36
Images
No images available on the BM website (as of 2021).
WC? 23 Rome (lost)
Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WC? 23 |
| Type | ?Outflow ?water clock |
| Current Location | Unknown |
| Catalogue Numbers | None |
| Provenance | Baths of Caracalla. Found in Vigna Guidi, (now Via di Porta San Sebastiano 19, Rome - right at the Gate itself). |
| Date | Unknown. Found in 1882 by the owner of the property. |
| Dimensions | Unknown |
| Material | "Basalt" |
| Condition | "Very damaged" vessel in the shape of an Egyptain lower millstone (i.e. a flower-pot shape) |
| Publications | Roullet (1972) |
Content
| External registers | Unknown |
| External upper band of text | Unknown |
| External lower band(s) of text | Unknown |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | Unknown |
| Rim | Unknown |
| Interior markings | Unknown |
| Other features | Decorated with "Egyptian figures" |
Notes
Not listed in the Berlin Waterclock Project database.
Images
None.