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Dialface ID 149

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Holder: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Site: Herakleia, Latmos, Turkey
Material: Marble, White
Dating: 3rd cent. BCE
Type: Cone, Conical
Inventory Number: N° usuel 2820, N° d'entrée MNB 694
Site Geolocation: Lat.: 37.490000, Long.: 27.526000
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Abstract

North and south-facing conical surfaces have been carved into this marble rhombohedron with oblique angles of 128°.

References

  • Diels, Herrmann: Antike Technik, Leipzig and Berlin, 1920, p. 176 ff, figures 55, 56, 57 (drawings).
  • Donderer, M.: Signaturen auf Sonnenuhren. Konstrukteure oder Steinmetze?, In: Epigraphica, vol. 40, 1998, 165--182.
  • Gibbs, Sharon L.: Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 268f.
  • Rayet, G.: Les Cadrans Solaires Coniques, In: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, vol. 6, 1875, 52--86.
  • Scott Gatty, Margaret: The Book of Sun-dials, London, 1900, p. 37 f (drawing).
  • Winter, Eva: Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 370.

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DOI

10.17171/1-1-1789

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 149, Paris, Inv. Nr. N° usuel 2820, N° d'entrée MNB 694, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-1789

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DOI: 10.17171/1-1-1789
Title: Dialface ID 149
Creator: Berlin Sundial Collaboration
Publisher: Edition Topoi
Publication Year: 2014
Subtitle: Paris, Inv. Nr. N° usuel 2820, N° d'entrée MNB 694
Description: Information on the Dialface ID 149 / Object ID 151
Collection: Ancient Sundials
Contributor Name: Gerd Graßhoff, Elisabeth Rinner
Contributor Type: Editor
Resource Type: Dataset
Date (Update): 2014
Origin / Holder object: Musée du Louvre
Inventory Number: N° usuel 2820, N° d'entrée MNB 694
Holder digital source: Exzellenzcluster 264 – Topoi
Rights: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE
Subjects: History of Science, Archaeology
Version: 1
  • Diels, Herrmann: Antike Technik, Leipzig and Berlin, 1920, p. 176 ff, figures 55, 56, 57 (drawings).
  • Donderer, M.: Signaturen auf Sonnenuhren. Konstrukteure oder Steinmetze?, In: Epigraphica, vol. 40, 1998, 165--182.
  • Gibbs, Sharon L.: Greek and Roman Sundials, New Haven and London, 1976, p. 268f.
  • Rayet, G.: Les Cadrans Solaires Coniques, In: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, vol. 6, 1875, 52--86.
  • Scott Gatty, Margaret: The Book of Sun-dials, London, 1900, p. 37 f (drawing).
  • Winter, Eva: Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 370.