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Dialface ID 519
Abstract
It is an example of the rare case where the conical surface is cut quite perfectly, but all the geometrical details were added with poor accuracy. The raw basalt block must have approximated to a cube of an edge length of about 450 mm. Together with four further specimens from Syria and one from Saudi Arabia, this marks the eastern limit of provenance of all the nearly three hundred known Greco-Roman sundials.
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
- – Catamo, Mario, Lanciano, N., Locher, K., Lombadero, M., Valdes, M., Fifteen Further Greco-Roman Sundials from the Mediteranean Area and Sudan, 2000, p. 218 f.