Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WCO 18 |
| Type | Outflow water clock vessel, represented by two extant fragments |
| Current Location |
Fragment a: Petrie Museum, London Fragment b: Sold at Sotheby's, now presumably in a private collection |
| Catalogue Numbers |
Fragment a: UC55487 Fragment b: N/A |
| Provenance | Athribis/Mostai in the Nile Delta (Sotheby's listing), from the identification of an epithet of Thoth on the Petrie Museum fragment |
| Date | Dynasty 30, ?Nectanebo |
| Dimensions |
Fragment a (from the Petrie Museum catalogue): height 12.7 cm; width 18.8 cm; thickness 4.5 cm Fragment b (from the Sotheby's catalogue): height 13.8 cm; depth 3.6 cm |
| Material | Basalt |
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Condition |
The two fragments show careful manufacture but together make up very little of the original vessel. Both fragments come from the area near the bottom of the interior hour scales. |
| Publications |
Online Petrie Museum catalogue can be visited here. Sotheby's sale catalogue listing here . |
Content
| External registers | Unknown |
| External upper band of text | Unknown |
| External lower band(s) of text | Partially preserved: Fragment a includes "Thoth son of the two Lords, he who emerges from the forehead". A vertical label on fragment b: "To consecrate the bread for his father who ensures that he is endowed with life" (Sotheby's sale catalogue listing) |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | The lower parts of the pharaoh and deities appear on both fragments, but it is unclear whether there were upper registers with astronomical material above. |
| Rim | Not preserved |
| Interior markings | Columns of dots, with Dd and wAs symbols underneath |
| Other features |
Notes
Fragment b sold for 60,000 USD on 12 December 2013 at Sotheby's, New York.
See also the entries in:
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 40 Petrie Museum, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-35 [Fragment a]
Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 23 Private Collection, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-16 [Fragment b]
Images
Fragment b: Sotheby's sale catalogue listing has intererior and exterior views here with high resolution zoomable images.
Fragment a: Exterior view, courtesy of The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL
Fragment a: Interior view, courtesy of The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL
