Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WCO 3 |
| Type | Outflow water clock |
| Current Location |
Fragment a: British Museum
Fragment b: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Fragment c: Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin
Fragment d: Private Collection (NY, USA)
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| Catalogue Numbers |
Fragment a: EA933
Fragment b: E 30890
Fragment c: ÄM 30508
Fragment d: None
|
| Provenance |
Tell el-Yahudiya (Leontopolis) |
| Date | Estimate: 332-323 BCE, time of Alexander the Great) |
| Dimensions |
Fragment a: height 44.3 cm (including attached base); width 40.5 cm (including base); depth 25 cm (including base)
Fragment b: 5 x 9 cm
Fragment c: Unknown
Fragment d: 18.3 x 17 cm
|
| Material | Granodiorite |
| Condition | Incomplete: four fragments currently in four different locations, with the largest fragment at the British Museum |
| Publications | Budge (1909b); Borchardt (1920); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (1982); Fazzini & Bianchi (1988); Walker & Higgs (2001); Stanwick (2005); Lodomez (2007) |
Content
| External registers | Single Register Present |
| External upper band of text | Present |
| External lower band(s) of text | Present |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | Not Present |
| Rim | Unknown |
| Interior markings | Columns of dots as well as three incised hieroglyphic signs, a was-sceptre, a djed pillar, and an ankh |
| Other features |
Notes
See also the entries in:
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 24 BM 933, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-17 [Fragment a] (Berlin cast of this object is ID 11.)
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 26 Louvre 30890, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-19 [Fragment b] (Berlin cast of this object is ID 13.)
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 14 Berlin 30508, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-6 [Fragment c]
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 16 Private Collection, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-8 [Fragment d]
Images
Fragment a: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA933
Fragment b: http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=3325&langue=fr
Fragment c: Lodomez (2007)
Fragment d: Unavailable