‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 421
Abstract
The sundial from Myrmekion near Panticapaeum is the most pan-Roman of the unusual sculptures from the Black Sea region, being a simple version of a carved and engraved block of marble produced for villas and town-squares from Ephesus to the environs of Rome. It is in the form of about the fourth part of a hollow sphere, supported on two large feline feet. The concave surface is graduated into twelve hour spaces, and there are remains of the attachment of the gnomon.
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
- – Severino, Nicola, De Monumentis Gnomonicis apud graecos et romanos. Le meridiane greco-romane. La storia, il catalogo, gli articoli, Roccasecca, 2003, p. 158.
- – Sokolov, Gleb, Antike Schwarzmeerküste. Denkmäler der Architektur, Bildhauerei, Malerei und angewandten Kunst, Leipzig, 1976, p. 62.
- – Vermeule, Cornelius C., Greek and Roman Sculpture from the Northern Coasts of the Black Sea (chiefly Russia), 1977, p. 817.