Water clock (Florence)

Identification

Title	Water clock (Florence)
Water Clock ID	WCO 17 (see catalogue of water clocks)
Type	Astronomical Representation
Decan List Family	AR1
EAT3 Number and Name	45 Florence
EAT3 Pages and Plates	60-61, Plate 22D
EAT3 Decan List Family	Senmut or Senmut A
Publications	Borchardt (1920)
Location	Fragment of a water clock possibly from Saqqara. Inv. No. 12290, Museo Egizio, Florence
Date	Early Ptolemaic?

Content

Registers	Probably only 2
Circumpolar Group and Deities	?
Planets	?
Decan Names	Yes
Decanal Stars	Yes
Personifications of the Decans	Unlikely
Cluster Numbers	?
Depictions of Decanal Constellations	Yes
Decanal Deity Names	Yes
Decanal Deity Figures	A horus-headed figure is depicted, out of place to be a planet, which may be a decanal deity or an over-sized determinative
Lunar Months	?
Civil Months	?
Nut	Unlikely

Notes

This fragment of a water clock is consistent with an astronomical representation similar to that of the Amenhotep III water clock.

Schematic

The fragment only contains part of the decanal area of the representation.

Decan List

Only part of the decan list is preserved.

The list gives an approximate layout for how the decans, deities, cluster labels (in transliteration), and decanal figures (in bold) are arranged. However, the only way of perceiving the complete layout and orthography of the labels is by consulting photographs or drawings. The decan numbers and letters shown here are for the decan family AR1.

The number of star symbols accompanying the decans is also omitted here, as it is often impossible to tell to which decan the symbols refer. EAT3 deals with star symbols in some detail.