ObjID230-1
‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 228
Abstract
The core of the gnomon hole, containing no metal, is visible in the center of a large circular scarred area along the meridian above the summer solstice. This dial has been carved on the horizontal section of a column 43 cm in diameter. The grid of lines includes eleven hour lines and three day curves. The points of intersection of hour lines and solstices are marked by dots. The meridian extends beyond winter and summer solstices to the edges of the section.
Measurements
Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 230, matched to this dialface by inventory number.
This object is registered in the measurement database, but its own record holds no measured values.
References
- – Avellino, F. M., Descrizione di una casa Pompejana, Naples, 1837, p. 29, 60 and table 3, no. 5 (drawing).
- – Bilfinger, Gustav, Die Zeitmesser der antiken Völker, Stuttgart, 1886, p. 36 (drawing).
- – Diels, Herrmann, Antike Technik, Leipzig and Berlin, 1920, p. 181, figure 59 (drawing).
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 329 f., plate 54.
- – Jashemski, Wilhelmina F., The Gardens of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Villas Destroyed by Vesuvius, New York, 1979, p. 181, no. 354.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 488.
- – Staub Gierow, M., Casa del Granduca (VII 4, 56) und Casa dei Capitelli figurati (VII 4, 57), Munich, 1994
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