‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 269
Abstract
The publication describes a red copper bayonetlike gnomon. The dial consists of two plane surfaces meeting at an angle of 90 to form the meridian. Eleven hour lines and three day curves are preserved.
Measurements
This object has not been measured by the 3D pipeline. Its entry in the catalogue rests on the published description only; no surface fit, latitude or line detection exists for it.
References
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 361.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, 436-437.
- – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 222.