Identification
ID in this catalogue | SS Petrie UC16376 |
Type | Sloping |
Current Location | Petrie Museum of Archaeology |
Catalogue Numbers | UC16376 |
Provenance | Unknown |
Date |
Ptolemaic Period (UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue) Borchardt places it in the Roman period, in contrast to SS Qantara which he places earlier in the Ptolemaic period. |
Dimensions | L 136 mm, H 90 mm (UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue) |
Material | Steatite (UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue) |
Markings and inscriptions |
Hieroglyphic inscription around bottom edge. Scene on back. Diagonal lines on sloping part represent hour lines. |
Notes |
The gnomon part of this sloping sundial is missing "Black steatite shadow clock of senenu. Parallels with same name = BM. 1668 (statue frag.) and Cairo Cat. 70031 (naos - Roeder)" (UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue) |
Literature |
Borchardt (1920) p. 44 ff. Sloley (1931) Pl. XVII.4 |
Images
From Petrie (1926), reproduced by kind permission of the UCL Petrie Museum: