ObjID198-1
‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 196
Abstract
The dial consists of two fragments: AO 4823 found by Renan and preserved in the Louvre, and M 300 found by the Direction General of Antiquities of the Lebanese Republic and published by Dunand and Duru.
Measurements
Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 198, matched to this dialface by inventory number.
| Quality grade | B (completeness 55 %) |
|---|---|
| Dial surface | cone (preferred, not decisive) · fit residual mm: cone 0.43, cylinder 0.63, sphere 4.02 |
| Latitude φ | no latitude determined |
| Engraved lines | 3 hour lines, 3 day lines |
| Cone half-angle α | 33.6° (cone residual on all points 0.51 mm) |
| Measured | 2026-06-12 20:33 |
References
- – Semiticarum}, {Corpus Inscriptionum, Belles-Lettres}, {Académie des Inscriptions et, Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, Paris, 1881-1962, I, p. 33 f.
- – métiers, Conservatoire national des arts et, Catalogue official des collections du Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris, 1880, vol. 3, no. 8280, p.107 (photograph).
- – Dunand, Maurice, Duru, Raymond, Oumm el-'Amed : un ville de l'époque hellénestique aux échelles de Tyr, Paris, 1962, p. 79, 110, 185 and plate 39.1.
- – Scott Gatty, Margaret, The Book of Sun-dials, London, 1900, p. 36 f.
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 73, p. 309, p. 310, plate 49.
- – Renan, Ernest, Trois Inscriptiones Phéniciennes trouvées à Oumm el-Awamid, 1862, p. 378 ff.
- – Renan, Ernest, Mission de Phénicie, Paris, 1874, p. 729 ff.
- – Woepke, Franz, Note de M. Woepke sur le Cadran Solaire Phénicien de M. Renan, 1863, p. 292 ff.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 458f.
- – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 579.
- – Giorgetti, Dario, Orologio solare fenicio da Oumn el Amed, 1977, 38-40.
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