Identification
| ID in this catalogue | SS Petrie UC16376 |
| Type | Sloping |
| Current Location | Petrie Museum of Archaeology |
| Catalogue Numbers | UC16376 |
| Provenance | Unknown |
| Date | Ptolemaic Period (UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue); Borchardt places it in the Roman period, in contrast to SS Qantara which he places earlier in the Ptolemaic period. |
| Dimensions | L 136 mm, H 90 mm (UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue) |
| Material | Steatite (UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue) |
| Markings and inscriptions | Hieroglyphic inscription around bottom edge. Scene on back. Diagonal lines on sloping part represent hour lines. |
| Notes | The gnomon part of this sloping sundial is missing. "Black steatite shadow clock of senenu. Parallels with same name = BM. 1668 (statue frag.) and Cairo Cat. 70031 (naos - Roeder)" (UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue). |
| Literature | Borchardt (1920) p. 44 ff.; Petrie (1926) p. 45 and Pls. XXV and XXVI; Sloley (1931) Pl. XVII.4; Clagett (1995); Symons (1999); UCL Petrie Museum (2016) |
Images
From Petrie (1926), reproduced by kind permission of the UCL Petrie Museum:
