ObjID229-1
‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 227
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Abstract
The base of a bronze gnomon, 12 mm wide, remains in a lead-filled hole. Two round holes at the left side of the dial block may have served for mounting. Meridian and equinox divide the shadow-receiving surface into four rectangles. The grid of eleven hour lines and three day curves may have been determind by the dots which mark the junctions of hour lines and solstices.
Measurements
Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 229, matched to this dialface by inventory number.
This object is registered in the measurement database, but its own record holds no measured values.
References
- – Gabba, L., Jacono, L., Meridiana, Rome, 1934, p. 903 (photograph second from left).
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 328.
- – Severino, Nicola, De Monumentis Gnomonicis apud graecos et romanos. Le meridiane greco-romane. La storia, il catalogo, gli articoli, Roccasecca, 2003, p. 20.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 489f.
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