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	Visconti (1860) Wiedemann (1901) Schäfer (1910) Borchardt (1920) Porter and Moss (1960)  Roullet (1972)   Long (1987)

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.