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Dialface ID 78
Abstract
The slightly rounded top surface of this dial is pierced by an irregularly shaped hole. Four small human profiles decorate the upper and lower corners of the oblique front surface. A wide lip surrounds the circular front opening. All eleven engraved hour lines and day curves remain on the dial surface which is supported by a cyma reversa base.
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
- – Bracchi, L. C., Orologi Solari di Aquileia, 1960, col. 65 f, figure 9 (photograph).
- – Brusin, Giovanni, Gli scavi di Aquileia : un quadriennio di attività dell'Associazione nazionale per Aquileia, 1929-1932, Udine, 1934, p. 115-117, no. 10, item 17 (photograph), fig. 70.
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 196f.
- – Alberi Auber, Paolo, L'orologio solare a semisfera del Museo di Udine, 2005, p. 167.
- – Scrinari, Valnea Santa Maria, Museo Archeologico di Aquilea. Catalogo delle Sculture Romane, Rome, 1972, p. 204, no. 649.