‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 177
Abstract
The thirteen engraved hour lines include two neat the horizontal top edge. The fourth, seventh, and tenth hour lines are specially marked. Three engraved day curves are visible. The oblique front is decorated with a simple geometric design which includes a crescent.
Measurements
This object has not been measured by the 3D pipeline. Its entry in the catalogue rests on the published description only; no surface fit, latitude or line detection exists for it.
References
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 296.
- – Settele, Guiseppe, Memoria sopra la forma delle linee orarie indicanti le ore ineguali degli antichi sopra gli orologj solari letta nell' Accademia de Lincei, Rome, 1816, p. 21ff.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 533.
- – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 111.