Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 83

Holder:: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia, Italy
Site:: Aquileia, Italy
Material:: Marble, White
Dating:: 1st cent. CE
Type:: Sphere, Spherical-roofed spherical
Inventory Number:: 844
Site Geolocation:: Lat.: 45.7734, Long.: 13.3664

Abstract

The rounded top of this dial is partially broken away. Two four-leaf rosettes decorate the top left and right corners, two tendrils decorate the bottom left and right corners. The dial is supported by a lesbian cyma base. A wide lip surrounds the circular segment cut off by the oblique front plane.

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. 67, note 5.
– Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 71, p. 203.

DOI

10.17171/1-1-968

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 83, Aquileia, Inv. Nr. 844, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-968

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