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Dialface ID 55
Abstract
A rectangular gnomon hole is preserved in the front surface of the dial, along the meridian 20 mm from the top edge. Its dimensions are 27 mm long x 10 mm wide x 22 mm deep. [...] A wide lip emphasizes the circumference of the front section. The relief depicts a youthful figure playing a harp in a garden with various animals. Found in the ruins of ancient Dorostorum. The dial face is a flattened quarter sphere. Mladenova attributes the art work to the end of the second or the beginning of 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. 168, p. 170, plate 9.
- – Mladenova, J., Solnechnie Chasi s relefom Orfeya iz Dourostorouma, 1961, 274-278.
- – Tačeva, Margarita, Eastern Cults in Moesia Inferior and Thracia (5th Century BC-4th Century AD), Leiden, 1983, p. 6, no. 8, pl. IV.
- – Valev, Peter, Mathematical and Astronomical Study of a Roman Sundial from Kabyle No. 3, 2004
- – Vendries, Christophe, Orphée, Isis, Sarapis et l’âne terrassé, le décor d’un cadran solaire de Durostorum (Silistra), 2017