Identification
Title | Water clock (Moscow) |
Water Clock ID | WCO 8 (see catalogue of water clocks) |
Type | Astronomical Representation |
Decan List Family | ? |
EAT3 Number and Name | - |
EAT3 Pages and Plates | - |
EAT3 Decan List Family | - |
Publications | Hodjash and Berlev (1982) |
Location | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow I.1.a.5955 |
Date | Ptolemaic |
Content
Registers | At least 2, probably 3 |
Circumpolar Group and Deities | ? |
Planets | Yes |
Decan Names | ? |
Decanal Stars | ? |
Personifications of the Decans | ? |
Cluster Numbers | ? |
Depictions of Decanal Constellations | ? |
Decanal Deity Names | ? |
Decanal Deity Figures | Unlikely |
Lunar Months | Yes |
Civil Months | ? |
Nut | Unlikely |
Notes
This fragment of a Ptolemaic water clock is consistent with an astronomical representation similar to that of the Amenhotep III water clock, eve but only a very small portion is preserved, spanning part of the middle and lower registers.
Schematic
The layout was presumably identical to the Amenhotep III water clock.
Decan List
No part is preserved.
Images
See Hodjash and Berlev (1982).