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Dialface ID 448
Abstract
A Hellenistic sundial not contained in the standard catalogue by Gibbs. This example is unique in being made of plaster, in its small size, and in having a shadow-receiving surface of negative, roughly hyperboloidal curvature.
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
- – Bonnin, Jerome, Les Horologia Romana en Hispanie, Mobiler, Histoire et Realiés Archéologiques, 2010, 190.
- – Locher, Kurt, Two Greco-Roman sundials from Alexandria and Dion, 1993, p. 300 f.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 256f.