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Dialface ID 478

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Holder: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi, Syracuse, Italy
Site: Syracuse, Italy
Material: Stone
Dating: unknown
Type: Sphere, Spherical
Inventory Number: 35080
Site Geolocation: Lat.: 37.060000, Long.: 15.294000
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Abstract

Two rather inexactly made miniature spherical dials in stone can be mentioned. One, in the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes, the other, in Syracuse is almost complete.

References

  • Bellina, Giovanni: Il tempo e l' identità. Dal sentimento del tempo al tempo del sentimento, Ragusa, 2002.
  • Evans, James and Marée, Marcel: A Miniature Ivory Sundial with Equinox Indicator from Ptolemaic Tanis, Egypt, In: Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 39, 2008, 1--17.

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DOI

10.17171/1-1-3999

Citation

Berlin Sundial Collaboration, Ancient Sundials, Dialface ID 478, Syracuse, Inv. Nr. 35080, 2014, Edition Topoi, DOI: 10.17171/1-1-3999

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DOI: 10.17171/1-1-3999
Title: Dialface ID 478
Creator: Berlin Sundial Collaboration
Publisher: Edition Topoi
Publication Year: 2014
Subtitle: Syracuse, Inv. Nr. 35080
Description: Information on the Dialface ID 478 / Object ID 439
Collection: Ancient Sundials
Contributor Name: Gerd Graßhoff, Elisabeth Rinner
Contributor Type: Editor
Resource Type: Dataset
Date (Update): 2014
Origin / Holder object: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
Inventory Number: 35080
Holder digital source: Exzellenzcluster 264 – Topoi
Rights: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE
Subjects: History of Science, Archaeology
Version: 1
  • Bellina, Giovanni: Il tempo e l' identità. Dal sentimento del tempo al tempo del sentimento, Ragusa, 2002.
  • Evans, James and Marée, Marcel: A Miniature Ivory Sundial with Equinox Indicator from Ptolemaic Tanis, Egypt, In: Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 39, 2008, 1--17.