IMG_5649
‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 237
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Abstract
The round gnomon hole, 8 mm in diameter, contains traces of bronze and iron. A hole for possible mounting is visible in the back at top center. The stone is shaped like a truncated pyramid with the dial engraved on the base with the larger surface area. Eleven hour lines and three day curves are visible. Lines for the fifth and seventh hours split into two lines just below the equinox.
Measurements
Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 239, matched to this dialface by inventory number.
This object is registered in the measurement database, but its own record holds no measured values.
References
- – Diels, Herrmann, Antike Technik, Leipzig and Berlin, 1920, p. 182, plate 15 (photograph).
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 337.
- – Schalk, Heinrich, Die neuesten Funde in Wiesbaden, 1868, p. 358 (drawing).
- – Schlieben, A., Roemische Sonnenuhren in Wiesbaden und Cannstadt, 1888, p. 316 ff (drawings).
- – Severino, Nicola, De Monumentis Gnomonicis apud graecos et romanos. Le meridiane greco-romane. La storia, il catalogo, gli articoli, Roccasecca, 2003, p. 126.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 273f.
- – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 314.
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