Ancient Sundials

‹ Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 693

Abstract

Portable bronze sundial of Late Antique date.

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

  • – de Solla Price, Derek John, Portable Sundials in Antiquity, including an Account of a New Example from Aphrodisias, 1969, p. 259-262.
  • – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 270-72.
  • – Field, Judith Veronica, Some Roman and Byzantine Portable Sundials and the London Sundial-Calendar, 1990, p. 117-120, 123.
  • – Field, Judith Veronica, Wright, M. T., Gears from the Byzantines: a portable sundial with calendrical gearing, 1985, p. 105-135.
  • – Chaniotis, Angelos, New Inscriptions from Aphrodisias (1995-2001), 2004, p. 414.

DOI

10.17171/1-1-5199

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 693, Geyre, Inv. Nr. 63-400, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-5199

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