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Dialface ID 79
Abstract
The slightly rounded top is damaged at the center. [...] Two four-leafed rosettes decorate the top corners; two symmetric volutes and stylized legs decorate the base. A 23 mm wide relief lip borders the front circular section of the dial face. [...] Found in Monastro near the east gate of Admiral Ritter's Violla Vincentina.
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, p. 55, figure 5 (photograph) and p. 67, note 5.
- – Scott Gatty, Margaret, The Book of Sun-dials, London, 1900, p. 33.
- – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 197, p. 198, plate 20.
- – Severino, Nicola, De Monumentis Gnomonicis apud graecos et romanos. Le meridiane greco-romane. La storia, il catalogo, gli articoli, Roccasecca, 2003, p. 53.
- – Kenner, Friedrich, Römische Sonnenuhren aus Aquileia, 1880, p. 4 ff, figures 3 and 4 (drawings).
- – Alberi Auber, Paolo, L'orologio solare a semisfera del Museo di Udine, 2005, p. 168.
- – Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 280.
- – Bonnin, Jérôme, La Mesure du temps dans l'Antiquité, Paris, 2015, A 69.