![]() ![]() Maroc médiéval: Un empire de l'Afrique à l'Espagne. ^ a b c Lintz, Yannick Déléry, Claire Tuil Leonetti, Bulle (2014).The structure and facade of the house itself was also restored in the early 2000s. The bowls have been removed since 2004 with the aim of repairing or reconstructing its mechanism, though the project, managed by ADER-Fes (a foundation for the restoration of monuments in Fes), has been unsuccessful in this regard so far. The clock has been defunct for generations and a lack of documentation and collective memory about its exact functioning has impeded efforts to repair it. The facade of the building is decorated with carved stucco around the windows and by sculpted arabesque and epigraphic motifs on the wooden rafters and corbels. The rafters sticking out of the building above the doors (similar to the rafters of the Bou Inania Madrasa) supported a small roof to shield the doors and bowls. Each hour one of the doors opened at the same time a metal ball was dropped into one of the twelve brass bowls. At one end, the cart was attached to a rope with a hanging weight at the other end to a rope with a weight that floated on the surface of a water reservoir that was drained at a regular pace. The motion of the clock was presumably maintained by a kind of small cart which ran from left to right behind the twelve doors. The clock consists of 12 windows and platforms carrying brass bowls. The restored facade of the Dar al-Magana today (with the bowls missing) ![]()
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