Ancient Sundials

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Dialface ID 49

Abstract

A gnomon hole (27 mm long x 15 mm wide x 49 mm deep) is preserved in the back of the dial with a 20 mm wide groove in the top surface. [...] Two hands and a damaged head support the rounded sides, back and bottom of the dial surface. G. Bordenache dates workmanship to the third century A.D.

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. 161, 18.
  • – Ionescu-Carligel, Constantine, Contributions à l’Étude des Cadrans Solaires Antiques, 1970, p. 10, fig. 7.
  • – Ionescu, Doina, Rovithis-Livaniou, Eleni, Sundials in Ancient Dobrogea, 2013, p. 193f.
  • – Comănescu, Sylviu, Contribution à l'étude des cadrans solaires antiques découverts en Roumanie, Prague, 1970-1971, 47--50
  • – Ionescu-Carligel, Constantine, Cadrane Solare Grecesti si Romane in Dobrogea, 1969, fig. 4.

DOI

10.17171/1-1-5104

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 49, Bucharest, Inv. Nr. MNA L990, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-5104

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