Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 429

Holder:: Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
Site:: Abu Mina, Egypt
Material:: Limestone
Dating:: unknown
Type:: Cone, Conical
Inventory Number:: 19810
Site Geolocation:: Lat.: 30.84, Long.: 29.66

Abstract

Information on the Dialface ID 429 / Object ID 389

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

– Kosciuk, Jacek, A conical sundial from Abu Mina, 1992, p. 31-41, p. 43-54.
– Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 253f.
– Locher, Kurt, Three further Greco-Roman conical sundials from Palmyra, Naples and Abu Mina, 1995, p. 163.
– Anselmi, Riccardo, La meridiana conica di Abu Mina, 2000

DOI

10.17171/1-1-3827

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 429, Alexandria, Inv. Nr. 19810, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-3827

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