Ancient Sundials

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Dialface ID 103

Abstract

Only one day curve crosses the seven preserved hour lines (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) 6 mm from the lower edge. Ferrous stains are evident in thumbprint-shaped remains of mount hole at the center of the bottom front. Schaldach: Die linke obere Hälfte und Teile der Basis fehlen. Die Stundenlinien sind breit eingekerbt. Limbus: 300 mm.

Measurements

Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 106, matched to this dialface by inventory number.

This object is registered in the measurement database, but its own record holds no measured values.

References

  • – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 223.
  • – Schaldach, Karlheinz, Die antiken Sonnenuhren Griechenlands. Festland und Peloponnes, Frankfurt am Main, 2006, p. 103, CD, 11.
  • – Borussicae, Academiae Litterarum Regiae, Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum, Berlin, 1873-1897, III, 2, 3857 (drawing).

3D Models

DOI

10.17171/1-1-1065

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 103, Athens, Inv. Nr. EM 9818, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-1065

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