ObjID482-1
‹ Ancient Sundials
Dialface ID 523
Abstract
Sundial; rectangular block with concave hemisphere in the upper part; inscriptions along the incised curves indicating the winter and summer solstice (A and C) and the equinox (B); found in a room flanking the gate of a large 3rd cent. A.D. open-court building excavated in 1991/1992; either built into the front wall or reused in the room.
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
- – Chaniotis, A., Pleket, H. W., Stroud, R. S., Strubbe, J. H. M., Palmyra. Inscription on a sundial, 3rd cent. A.D. ?(45-1912), 2013
- – Locher, Kurt, Three further Greco-Roman conical sundials from Palmyra, Naples and Abu Mina, 1995, p. 159 ff, fig. 2.