Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 386

ObjID346-1

Holder:: Archaeological Museum Aphrodisias, Geyre, Turkey
Site:: Aphrodisias, Turkey
Material:: Marble, White
Dating:: 5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE
Type:: Plane, Planar-horizontal plane
Inventory Number:: 8,409
Site Geolocation:: Lat.: 37.709, Long.: 28.725

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Abstract

White marble columnar altar; the diameter of the top surface, which is slightly ovel, is 0.78 (north-south), 0.885 (west to east), to serve as a sundial. Inscribed on the top surface; there is a hole where the gnomon may have stood.

Measurements

Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 346, matched to this dialface by inventory number.

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

References

– Pattenden, Philip, A Late Sundial at Aphrodisias, 1981, p. 101-112.
– Roueché, C., Gameboards and Pavement Markings at Aphrodisias, London, 2007, p. 249.
– Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 272

3D Models

DOI

10.17171/1-1-3705

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 386, Geyre, Inv. Nr. 8,409, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-3705

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