Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 596

Holder:: Antalya Museum, Antalya, Turkey
Site:: Perge, Turkey
Material:: Limestone
Dating:: 1st/2nd cent. CE
Type:: Cone, Conical
Inventory Number:: 1.31.89, no. at excavation depot in Perge: B4

Abstract

Dialface takes up more than two third of sundial height. Dialface divided into 11 hour lines and two day curves.

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

– Donderer, M., Signaturen auf Sonnenuhren. Konstrukteure oder Steinmetze?, 1998, p. 182 with fig. 13
– Şahin, Sencer, Die Inschriften von Perge 1, Bonn, 1999, p. 296 Nr. 279
– Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 477.
– p. 13, fig. 5.

DOI

10.17171/1-1-5149

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 596, Antalya, Inv. Nr. 1.31.89, no. at excavation depot in Perge: B4, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-5149

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