WCO 4 Alexander B

Identification

ID in this catalogue	WCO 4
Type	Outflow water clock
Current Location	Fragment a: The State Hermitage Museum Fragment b: National Museum of Naples
Catalogue Numbers	Fragment a: ДВ-2507 Fragment b: 2327
Provenance	Egypt
Date	332-323 BCE
Dimensions	Fragment a: Height 33.5 cm Fragment b: Height 13.7 cm; width 16.7 cm; depth 5.5 cm
Material	Granodiorite
Condition	Two fragments, currently in different locations
Publications	Kircher (1654) Golenischeff (1891) Wiedemann (1901) Borchardt (1920) Шолпо (1939) Roullet (1972) Lembke (1994) Bolshakov (2005) Lodomez (2007)

Content

External registers	Single Register
External upper band of text	Yes
External lower band(s) of text	Yes
Exterior Astronomical Diagram	No
Rim	Unknown
Interior markings	Two partial columns of dots visible
Other features

Notes

See also the entries in:

Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 17 Hermitage 2507a, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-9 [Fragment a] (Berlin cast of this object is ID 3.)
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 25 Naples, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-18 [Fragment b] (Berlin cast of this object is ID 12.)

Images

Fragment a: Hermitage Museum Website The fragment is on display in Room 100 and can be seen in the Museum website's panaroramic views of that room.

Fragment b: see Lodomez (2007)