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Dialface ID 448

Holder: Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
Site: Ibrahimiya, Alexandria, Egypt
Material: Plaster
Dating: Ptolemaic
Type: Cone, Conical
Inventory Number: 15735
Site Geolocation: Lat.: 31.201100, Long.: 29.899400

Abstract

A Hellenistic sundial not contained in the standard catalogue by Gibbs. This example is unique in being made of plaster, in its small size, and in having a shadow-receiving surface of negative, roughly hyperboloidal curvature.

References

  • Bonnin, Jerome: Les Horologia Romana en Hispanie, Mobiler, Histoire et Realiés Archéologiques, In: Archivo Español de Arqueología, vol. 83, 2010, 183--198.
  • Locher, Kurt: Two Greco-Roman sundials from Alexandria and Dion, 1993, p. 300 f.
  • Winter, Eva: Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 256f.

DOI

10.17171/1-1-3901

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 448, Alexandria, Inv. Nr. 15735, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-3901

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DOI: 10.17171/1-1-3901
Title: Dialface ID 448
Creator: Berlin Sundial Collaboration
Publisher: Edition Topoi
Publication Year: 2014
Subtitle: Alexandria, Inv. Nr. 15735
Description: Information on the Dialface ID 448 / Object ID 409
Collection: Ancient Sundials
Contributor Name: Gerd Graßhoff, Elisabeth Rinner
Contributor Type: Editor
Resource Type: Dataset
Date (Update): 2014
Origin / Holder object: Graeco-Roman Museum
Inventory Number: 15735
Holder digital source: Exzellenzcluster 264 – Topoi
Rights: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE
Subjects: History of Science, Archaeology
Version: 1
  • Bonnin, Jerome: Les Horologia Romana en Hispanie, Mobiler, Histoire et Realiés Archéologiques, In: Archivo Español de Arqueología, vol. 83, 2010, 183--198.
  • Locher, Kurt: Two Greco-Roman sundials from Alexandria and Dion, 1993, p. 300 f.
  • Winter, Eva: Zeitzeichen. Zur Entwicklung und Verwendung antiker Zeitmesser, Berlin and Boston, 2013, p. 256f.