‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 270
Abstract
Two joined fragments; Five hour lines are preserved, not including the meridian. Parts of seven day curves remain. A Latin inscription marks these day curves as shown in the figure.
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
- – Mommsen, Theodor, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Berlin, 1863, VIII, 4, Supplement, 24677.
- – Delattre, R. P., Cagnat, R., Babelon, Ernst, Saladin, Henri, Musées et collections archéologiques de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie: Musée Lavigerie de Saint Louis de Carthage, Paris, 1899, p. 85 and plate 20, 5 (photograph).
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 362.
- – Tannery, Paul, Sciences exactes dans l'Antiquité, Paris and Toulouse, 1915, p. 1 ff (photograph).
- – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 270.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, 393.