Dar al-Magana (Water Clock)

The Dar al-Magana features a row of twelve carved cedar corbels protruding from the wall above a high, arched doorway. Built in the thirteen fifties by the sultan Abu Inan Faris, this wall once housed a complex water clock designed to tell the hour for prayers. Water flowed through pipes to tilt bowls and strike bells, signaling the time to the people of the medina. Today, the mechanism is gone, leaving only the empty stone slots where the bronze gongs once hung.