Ancient Sundials

‹ Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 272

Abstract

Gibbs: Four dials, north face, south face, west face, east face. British Museum: Parian marble sundial; two oblong plane surfaces; incised radials.

Measurements

Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 262, matched to this dialface by inventory number.

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

References

  • – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 84, p. 363 ff., plate 59.
  • – Smith, Arthur Hamilton, A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, London, 1904, vol 3, p. 414, no. 2546.
  • – Herrmann, Klaus, Sipsi, Maria, Schaldach, Karlheinz, Frühe Arachnen – über die Anfänge der Zeitmessung in Griechenland, 2015, p. 41f.
  • – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, 597.
  • – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 425.

3D Models

DOI

10.17171/1-1-2968

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 272, London, Inv. Nr. 2546; Reg: 1884,0615.1, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-2968

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