Ancient Sundials

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Dialface ID 97

Abstract

Only parts of the equinox and summer solstice remain; the winter solstice is entirely broken away. The base was flanked by two feet with nobby widely-spaced toes; one of the pair is missing.

Measurements

Measurement record: pipeline ObjID 100, matched to this dialface by inventory number.

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

References

  • – Antonini, Carlo, Candelabri e orologgi solari antichi, Rome, 1790, no. 2, dial 2 (drawing).
  • – Gibbs, Sharon L., Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 216.
  • – Severino, Nicola, De Monumentis Gnomonicis apud graecos et romanos. Le meridiane greco-romane. La storia, il catalogo, gli articoli, Roccasecca, 2003, p. 35.

3D Models

3D Point Selections

DOI

10.17171/1-1-996

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 97, Vatican City, Inv. Nr. 53875, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-996

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