Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 8

Holder:: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia, Italy
Site:: Aquileia, Italy
Material:: Stone, Porous
Dating:: 1st cent. CE
Type:: Sphere, Spherical-cut dials--central gnomon point
Site Geolocation:: Lat.: 45.7734, Long.: 13.3664

Abstract

The sundial has no visible ornaments. Front and lower part are oblique, the sides seem to be plain.

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. 71, p. 127, p. 128, plate 2.
– Winter, Eva, Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 276.

DOI

10.17171/1-1-41

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 8, Aquileia, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-41

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