Identification
| ID in this catalogue | WCO 6 |
| Type | Outflow water clock |
| Current Location | British Museum |
| Catalogue Numbers | EA938 (1873,0812.1, BS.938) |
| Provenance | Tell el-Yahudiya(?) |
| Date | Ptolemaic, 320 BCE |
| Dimensions | Height 34 cm; width 30 cm; depth 7 cm |
| Material | Granodiorite |
| Condition | One large fragment spanning rim to near the bottom |
| Publications | Birch (1850); Wiedemann (1901); Budge (1909a); Budge (1909b); Borchardt (1920); Langmann et al. (1984); Quirke and Spencer (1992) ; Clagett (1995); Grimal et al. (1998); Lodomez (2007) |
Content
| External registers | Single Register |
| External upper band of text | Present |
| External lower band(s) of text | Present |
| Exterior Astronomical Diagram | No |
| Rim | One complete and one partial month label in Latin and Egyptian |
| Interior markings | Two vertical lines of evenly spaced incised dots are preserved, as are parts of a djed-pillar, a was-sceptre, and an ankh. The fill line is clearly visible. |
| Other features |
Notes
Entry in the Britsh Museum online catalogue: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA938
See also the entry in: Schomberg, A., Berlin Waterclock Project, ID 28 BM 938, 2019, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/2-10-21 (Berlin cast of this object is ID 10.)
Images
See the BM catalogue entry above for views of the exterior and interior. Langmann et al. (1984) includes a view of the rim.