ObjID200-1
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Dialface ID 198
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Abstract
A photograph from Ingholt shows that this dial is part of a dedicatory column. Nine hour lines and three day curves are visible. A bilingual inscription in Greek and Palmyrenian, dating from 64 A.D. also appears on the column drum.
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
- – Cantineau, J., Starcky, Jean, Inventaire des Inscriptions de Palmyre II, Beirut, 1930, p. 22 f (photograph of inscription), no. 1.
- – Semiticarum}, {Corpus Inscriptionum, Belles-Lettres}, {Académie des Inscriptions et, Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, Paris, 1881-1962, II, 3966.
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 311 f.
- – Wiegand, Theodor, Krencker, Daniel M., Palmyra : Ergebnisse der Expeditionen von 1902 und 1917, Berlin, 1932, p. 89 ff, 153, 160 (photograph and drawing).
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 461f.