Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 725

Holder:: Unknown, Unknown, Unknown
Site:: Palmyra, Syria
Material:: Limestone
Dating:: unknown
Type:: Convex, Curved, At least four hour lines and a day curve are visible on the supplementary dial. No inscription is preserved.
Site Geolocation:: Lat.: 34.547, Long.: 38.2738

Abstract

Present location unknown. Ingholt´s photo shows half of a hemisphere with part of a supplementary dial south of the main cavity. The main dial face is broken along the meridian, giving the impression that a complete hemisphere was intended. [...] Found in a house inside the temple of Bel at Palmyra, March, 1925.

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. 192.
– Ingholt, Harald, Inscriptions and Sculptures from Palmyra, 1936, p. 112 ff. (photograph).

DOI

10.17171/1-1-8209

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 725, Unknown, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-8209

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