Ancient Sundials

Dialface ID 95

ObjID98-1

Holder:: Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei, Pompei, Italy
Site:: Pompei, Italy
Material:: Marble, White
Dating:: before 79 CE
Type:: Sphere, Spherical-roofed spherical
Inventory Number:: 52790
Site Geolocation:: Lat.: 40.7503, Long.: 14.4871

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Abstract

The spherical shadow-receiving surface of this dial has been hollowed out of a bowl-shaped stone complete with handle preserved on the right side. A second larger protrusion serves as the dial´s base. When set up on this base the edge of the spherical hollow leans forward 26 degrees from normal.

Measurements

Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 98, matched to this dialface by inventory number.

This object is registered in the measurement database, but its own record holds no measured values.

References

– Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 214, p. 221, plate 25.
– Severino, Nicola, De Monumentis Gnomonicis apud graecos et romanos. Le meridiane greco-romane. La storia, il catalogo, gli articoli, Roccasecca, 2003, p. 26.

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DOI

10.17171/1-1-978

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 95, Pompei, Inv. Nr. 52790, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-978

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