Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 5

Holder:: Archaeological Museum of Komotini, Komotini, Greece
Site:: Loutra, Greece
Material:: Unspecified stone or marble, Gibbs: brownish creamy stone; Schaldach: marble
Dating:: unknown
Type:: Sphere, Spherical-cut dials--central gnomon point
Inventory Number:: 1358
Site Geolocation:: Lat.: 40.88, Long.: 26.05

Abstract

A simple upper part is connected to a high base by an oblong, set back part with sloping edges. The base is decorated with two stylized knobbly animal legs, ending in a circular shape, from which spring four vertical, abstract, drop-shaped animal toes. The frontal planes are inscribed.

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. 125.
– Peek, W., Inschrift einer Sonnenuhr aus Traianopolis, 1973, p. 98 ff.
– Schaldach, Karlheinz, Die antiken Sonnenuhren Griechenlands. Festland und Peloponnes, Frankfurt am Main, 2006, p.142
– Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 428.

DOI

10.17171/1-1-34

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 5, Komotini, Inv. Nr. 1358, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-34

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