Ancient Sundials

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Dialface ID 258

Abstract

The drawing in Deonna shows fourteen hour lines. Part of an engraved circular curve is visible at lower left. The hour lines radiate from the gnomon hole to the circular arc.

Measurements

Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 249, matched to this dialface by inventory number.

This object is registered in the measurement database, but its own record holds no measured values.

References

  • – Deonna, Waldemar, Le mobilier délien, Paris, 1938, p. 193, p. 194 , figures 231 (drawing).
  • – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 354.
  • – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, 350.

3D Models

DOI

10.17171/1-1-2840

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 258, Delos, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-2840

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