Ancient Sundials

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Dialface ID 42

Abstract

The upper and lower front part are connected by a torus moulding. On the frontUP is a two-rowed neopunic inscription, which helps dating the sundial to the 1st century CE.

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. 156.
  • – della Vida, G. Levi, Un Inedita Inscriptione Neopunica da Leptis Magna, 1968, p. 127 ff.
  • – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, Leptis Magna 1, 409-410.

DOI

10.17171/1-1-635

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 42, Tripoli, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-635

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