Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 603

Holder:: Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell'Abruzzo, Chieti, Italy
Site:: Sulmo, Italy
Material:: Limestone
Dating:: 2nd cent. CE
Type:: Cone, Conical
Inventory Number:: 36 291
Site Geolocation:: Lat.: 42.0333, Long.: 13.9333

Abstract

Well preserved sundial, light damage along the edge of the dialface. Dialface carefully smoothed and divided into 11 hour lines.

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

– Mattiocco, Ezio, Dalla villa di Ovidio al santuario di Ercole : [in occasione della Mostra Archeologica "Dalla Villa di Ovidio al Santuario di Ercole", Sulmona, Palazzo dell'Annunziata 21 ottobre - 19 novembre 1989], Sulmona, 1989, fig. 23-24.
– Scheidt, Walter, Die azentrische sphärische Sonnenuhr aus Herdonia. Eine Analyse des Fragments 79-OR-167, Bruxelles and Rome, 1997, p. 387.
– Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 559 f.

DOI

10.17171/1-1-5157

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 603, Chieti, Inv. Nr. 36 291, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-5157

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