Dialface ID 422
Abstract
Stone sundial, broken on the left and at the bottom right corner; decorated with the head of a bull in relief; on either side of the relief, traces of an inscription in six lines, erased in antiquity. Found in 1918 on the estate of B.A.Bok together with CIRB 942. Mentioned by Yu.Yu.Marti, Izvestija Tavricheskogo otdelenija Istoriko- arkheologicheskoj komissii 59 (Kerch 1928) fig. 21 (ph. only; inscription not visible) [non vidimus]. In a study of four sundials in the Kerch Museum, ed. pr. S.A.Shestakov, Bosporskie issledovan?a 9 (2005) 360-373, studies this sundial and the inscription (363-365 no. 2; ph.; dr.; in Russian). He suggests that the text was erased when the sundial was moved to the temple. (CIRB 942 L. 1, 234 A.D.), As the original dedicatory text was no longer appropriate. V.P.Jajlenko, Tysiacheletnij Bosporskij reich: Istorija i epigrafika Bospora (Moscow 2010) 672/673 no. 18 (ph.; dr.; in Russian), presents an independent edition (unaware of the ed.pr.)
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
- – Mongait, Alexander, Archaeology In The U.S.S.R., Moscow, 1959, p. 207f.
- – Shestakov, S. A., Sun-Dial from Kerch Museum, 2005
- – Sève, Michel, Dubois, Laurent, Feyel, Christophe, Fröhlich, Pierre, Hamon, Patrice, Follet, Simone, Minon, Sophie, Knoepfler, Denis, Rousset, Denis, Lhôte, Eric, Decourt, Jean-Claude, Helly, Bruno, Hatzopoulos, Miltiade, Avram, Alexandre, Brixhe, Claude, Weiss, Emmanuel, Feissel, Denis, Gatier, Pierre-Louis, Cayla, Jean-Baptiste, Kayser, François, Dobias-Lalou, Catherine, Bulletin épigraphique, 2009, no. 67.