Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WCO 13 |
| Type | Outflow water clock |
| Current Location |
Lost since WW2 |
| Catalogue Numbers | ÄM 19556 |
| Provenance |
Rome, Hadrianic ruins. Porter & Moss (1952) vol. VII, pp.415-6 states "Black granite waterclock (unfinished), with scenes of a King before divinities, 3rd century B.C., found in ruins, temp. Hadrian, in Vigna Bonelli, outside Porta Portese, in Berlin Mus. 19556 (bought in Venice)..." and continues to list a bibliography up to 1936. |
| Date | Ptolemaic, reused in the time of Hadrian (AD 117-138) |
| Dimensions | Unknown |
| Material | Black Granite |
|
Condition |
Unfinished |
| Publications |
Content
| External registers | Single Register |
| External upper band of text | Not filled |
| External lower band(s) of text | Not filled |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | No |
| Rim | Unknown |
| Interior markings | Unknown |
| Other features |
Notes
The position of the spout seems unusually high. A baboon-shaped protruberence sits above it. Above that, as part of the decoration, a falcon wearing a double crown is visible with a sun-disc above. The photographs in Roullet seem to show a possible additional outlet (or some kind of intrusive addition) almost opposite the baboon's position and somewhat lower.
The vessel seems to have been reconstructed from several fragments and it is unclear whether all the visible fragments were original (the decoration stops at fracture lines, suggesting that some "fragments" were in fact total restorations of material).
See also the entry in: Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 22 Berlin 19556, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-15
Images
See Roullet (1972) for photos of the exterior.