ObjID268-1
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Dialface ID 281
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Abstract
A very fine example of a roofed spherical dial has been found on the island of Tenos (7OO1G) with an inscription identifying it as the work of Andronicus Cyrrestes, the architect who designed the Tower of Winds in Athens in the first century B.C. No other examples of this type of dial are known in Greece or Asia Minor. The dial includes both spherical and planar faces./ Four separate shadow-receiving surfaces face the cardinal points of the compass on this dial. The base below the south-facing surface is flanked by two dolphins. The area below the north-facing surface is inscribed with a lengthy Greek dedication. Three fragments have been restored (probably incorrectly) to the top of the sphere.
Measurements
Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 268, matched to this dialface by inventory number.
This object is registered in the measurement database, but its own record holds no measured values.
References
- – Diels, Herrmann, Antike Technik, Leipzig and Berlin, 1920, p. 172 ff and plate 13 (drawing).
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 71, p. 373 ff.
- – Graindor, P., Les fouilles de Tinos. Horologe d'Andronikos, 1906, p. 353 ff (photographs and drawings).
- – 891 (drawings) and supplement p. 139.
- – Rehm, Albert, Griechische Windrosen, Munich, 1916, p. 12 f, note 1.
- – Severino, Nicola, De Monumentis Gnomonicis apud graecos et romanos. Le meridiane greco-romane. La storia, il catalogo, gli articoli, Roccasecca, 2003, p. 91 f., p. 98.
- – Alberi Auber, Paolo, Gli orologi solari della Torre dei Venti a Atene e a Tinos del greco Andronico Cirreste, 2006
- – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 577.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, 568-571.
- – Donderer, M., Signaturen auf Sonnenuhren. Konstrukteure oder Steinmetze?, 1998, 180.
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