Ancient Sundials

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Dialface ID 179

Abstract

The much worn surface of this dial still shows eleven scratched hour lines. In taking the above measurements I have assumed certain vague traces to be the winter solstice and the equinox. Any trace of summer solstice has broken away.

Measurements

Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 180, 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. 298.
  • – Severino, Nicola, De Monumentis Gnomonicis apud graecos et romanos. Le meridiane greco-romane. La storia, il catalogo, gli articoli, Roccasecca, 2003, p. 41.

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Computations

DOI

10.17171/1-1-2285

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 179, Vatican City, Inv. Nr. 3179, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-2285

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