ObjI248-10
‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 320
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Abstract
The base of a bronze gnomon in lead fill remains in the top surface above the meridian formed by the intersecting dial surfaces. This well-preserved dial consists of two dial surfaces, each with five engraved hour lines and three day curves, meeting at the meridian; one surface faces southeast, the other southwest. Some hour lines on the right extend beyond the summer solstice, but all seem to be contained within the winter curve.
Measurements
Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 248, matched to this dialface by inventory number.
This object is registered in the measurement database, but its own record holds no measured values.
References
- – Deonna, Waldemar, Le mobilier délien, Paris, 1938, p. 194 f, figures 232, 233 (drawings), plate 545 (photograph).
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 353.
- – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 547.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, 337.
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