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Clepsydra

Objects

A named water-clock of classical and later Near Eastern practice. Not a sundial, not an hourglass, and not a nilometer.

Also known as Water clock

Roman religion

  • Clepsydra appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats water-clocks among the timekeepers known to Roman learning. A named water-clock class in that encyclopedia, not a sundial and not an hourglass.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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