ObjI226-18
‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 224
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Abstract
Traces of iron gnomon remain in gnomon hole 13 mm in diameter. Meridian and equinox line divide the shadow-receiving surface into four equal rectangles. The usual eleven hour line/three day curve grid has been modified to include two straight lines which radiate from the point of intersection of meridian and winter solstice at angles of 25 (left) and 24 (right).
Measurements
Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 226, matched to this dialface by inventory number.
This object is registered in the measurement database, but its own record holds no measured values.
References
- – Couve, Luis, Fouilles à Délos, 1895, p. 476, no.1.
- – Deonna, Waldemar, Le mobilier délien, Paris, 1938, p. 193f., p. 192, figure 230.
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 78, p. 324 f., pl. 52.
- – Reinach, Salomon, Fouilles de Délos, 1905, p. 251.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 342.
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