Identification
ID in this catalogue | WCO 8 |
Type | Outflow water clock |
Current Location |
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
Catalogue Numbers | I.1.a.5955 |
Provenance | Egypt, unknown location |
Date | around 330 BCE |
Dimensions | Height 19 cm; width 17 cm; thickness 3 cm |
Material | Granite or granodiorite |
Condition |
Fragment |
Publications | Hodjash and Berlev (1982, 185) |
Content
External registers | Small portion of two preserved, likely to be three originally |
External upper band of text | Unknown |
External lower band(s) of text | Unknown |
Exterior Astronomical Diagram | Present, with only a small part preserved, encompassing parts of two lunar months (lower register) and three circumpolar attendant deities (middle register) |
Rim | Unknown |
Interior markings | Yes, columns of dots of which two are partially preserved |
Other features |
Notes
See also the entry in: Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 20 Pushkin 5955, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-13 (Berlin cast of this object is ID 8.)
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