WCO 21 Ptolemy II C (OIM, Chicago A7125)
Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WCO 21 |
| Type | Outflow water clock |
| Current Location | Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago |
| Catalogue Numbers | OIM AE7125 |
| Provenance | Egypt |
| Date | 282 - 246 BCE |
| Dimensions | Height approximately 10.2 cm; width approximately 13.6 cm; thickness 3.75 cm |
| Material | Black stone, possibly granite |
| Condition | Fragmented piece |
| Publications | Borchardt, (1920); Sloley, (1924); Sloley, (1931); Cotterell et al. (1986); Clagett, (1995); Ritner, (2016) |
Content
| External registers | Probably three |
| External upper band of text | Yes |
| External lower band(s) of text | Unknown |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | Yes. The fragment preserves part of the barque of Jupiter. |
| Rim | Inscription in ?Nabatean. |
| Interior markings | Columns of dots, with the incised fill line visible. |
| Other features |
Notes
This fragment has recently been carefully discussed by Ritner (2016).
See also the entry in: Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 38 Oriental Institute 7125, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-32
Images
See Ritner (2016).
WCO 12 Hermitage ДВ-2507b
Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WCO 12 |
| Type | Outflow water clock |
| Current Location | Room 100, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg |
| Catalogue Numbers | ДВ-2507b (also called 8698 in Шолпо (1939)) |
| Provenance | Rome (Iseum Campense), then Florence (Museum Gaddiano), then the Hermitage (around 1888) |
| Date | Ptolemy II, 285-246 BCE |
| Dimensions | Height 20.5 cm |
| Material | Granodiorite |
|
Condition |
Fragment |
| Publications | Kircher (1654); Golenischeff (1891); Wiedemann (1901); Schäfer (1910); Borchardt (1920); Pogo (1936); Шолпо (1939); Pietrangeli (1949); Porter and Moss (1960) ; Roullet (1972); Long (1987) |
Content
| External registers | Only one preserved |
| External upper band of text | Unknown |
| External lower band(s) of text | No |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | Unknown, as the decoration could have extended beyond the current fragment |
| Rim | Not preserved |
| Interior markings | Ankhs, djeds, and was-sceptres with columns of dots above. |
| Other features |
Notes
See also the entry in: Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 18 Hermitage 2507b, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-10 (Berlin cast of this object is ID 4.)
Images
The object does not appear to be on display currently and is not available in the online museum catalogue (as of May 2021).
WCO 13 Ägyptisches Museum ÄM 19556
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.
WCO 14 Florence 2613
Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WCO 14 |
| Type | Outflow water clock |
| Current Location | Museo Archeologico, Florence |
| Catalogue Numbers | 2613 |
| Provenance | Unknown |
| Date | Roman? |
| Dimensions | Height approximately 20 cm |
| Material | Granite |
| Condition | Fragmented piece |
| Publications | Borchardt (1920); Long (1987) |
Content
| External registers | Single Register |
| External upper band of text | Not present |
| External lower band(s) of text | Yes, two present |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | Unknown |
| Rim | Unknown |
| Interior markings | Yes, a grid rather than columns of dots |
| Other features |
Notes
See also the entry in: Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 36 Florence 2613, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-30 (Berlin cast of this object is ID 9.)
Images
Black and white small image of exterior and interior here: https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/petrie-3-1-413