Identification
ID in this catalogue | WCO 11 |
Type | Outflow water clock |
Current Location | Museo Barracco, Rome |
Catalogue Numbers | Inv/MB 27 |
Provenance | Found in Rome in the Campus Martius area (Temple of Isis) |
Date | Ptolemaic Period |
Dimensions |
Height 36.4 cm; diameter 27.8 cm |
Material | Granodiorite |
Condition | Fragmentary but reconstructed from seven pieces to form the base and almost full-height part of the side wall. |
Publications | Matz (1881); Wiedemann (1901) ; Borchardt (1920); Roullet (1972) ; Dorner (1985); Mengoli (1986); Lembke (1994); Whitehouse and Baines (2005) |
Content
External registers | One |
External upper band of text | Two |
External lower band(s) of text | One |
Exterior Astronomical Diagram | No |
Rim | Unknown |
Interior markings | Yes, columns of dots with no symbols underneath |
Other features |
Notes
See also the entry in: Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 30 Barracco, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-24 (Berlin cast of this object is ID 7.)
Images
Barracco Museum: http://www.museobarracco.it/en/percorsi/percorsi_per_sale/piano_primo/sala_ii_arte_egizia_e_mesopotamica/clessidra_ad_acqua