# "The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

- By: Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif
- By: Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari
- Date: dated 715 AH/1315 CE
- Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Classification: Codices
- Dimensions: H. 11 13/16 in. (30 cm) W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm) Frame: H. 20 1/4 in. (51.4 cm) W. 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm)
- Culture: probably Syria or Iraq
- Credit line: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451402)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/is/web-large/DP234075.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)