‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 278
Abstract
A gnomon hole is visible in the top of the dial above the meridian. Parts of three day curves and eleven hour lines are visible in a photograph of the dial. Only the meridian continues from the gnomon hole to the bottom edge of the dial. Other hour lines stretch between the solstices.
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. 370.
- – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 291.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, 593.