Ancient Sundials

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Albania
Dimale
Vastura
Algeria
Chellalet-el-Adhaoura
Cherchell
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Lambèse
Lambaesis
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Timgad
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Diluntum
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Kamen Bryag
Montana (Mihajlovgrad)
Pataulia
Reka Devnia
Serdica
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Amathonte
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Abu Mina
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Arsinoites
Lake of Mariut
Maryut
Naukratis
Tanis, San el-Hagar
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France
Agen
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Andilly-en-Bassigny
Annonay
Apt
Argilliers
Arles
Bavay
Bettviller
Bois-de-Vaux
Chusclan
Conflans
Gaujac
Lafitte-sur-Lot
Les Bolards
Lugdunum Convenarum
Lunel-Viel
Mandeure
Quarante
Rodez
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Germany
Bad Canstatt
Bonn
Eckum
Germany
Martberg
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Trier
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Greece
Agios Mamas
Ancient Corinth
Athens
Chios
Corinth
Delos
Dion
Eretria
Ialysos
Iasos
Isthmia
Kallipolis
Kea
Kefalos
Kissamos
Knidos
Kos
Lindos
Loutra
Maroneia
Megara
Milos
Mykonos
Olympia
Oropos
Parikia
Paros
Petres
Phalara (Stylis)
Rhodes
Samos
Samothraki
Sparta
Tinos
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Israel
Hebron
Jerusalem
Ramat Negev Regional Council
Sa´ar
Italy
Agrigento
Altino
Ancona
Aquileia
Aquino
Aquinum
Boscoreale
Bovino
Castelnuovo della Daunia
Castroreale
Cerveteri
Cingoli
Citta Lavinia
Concordia Sagittaria
Conza della Campania
Fermo
Guidonia Montecelio
Helvia Recina
Herculaneum
Kale Akte
Larino
Luco dei Marsi
Mardimago
Mevania
Milano
Modena
Montagnana
Montegrotto Terme
Montirone
Morgantina
Naples
Narni
Nepi
Ocriculum
Oplontis
Ortonovo
Ostia
Ostia Antica
Paestum
Palestrina
Passo Corese
Pompei
Ponte Lucano
Pozzuoli
Riano
Rome
Rosignano Marittimo
San Cesareo
Siena
Solunt
Stabiae
Sulmo
Syracuse
Teano
Terracina
Tindari
Tivoli
Todi
Tor Paterno
Torre Flavia
Trieste
Valesio
Velletri
Verucchio
Vigna Cassini
Volterra
Vulci
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Lebanon
Umm el-'Amed
Libya
Leptis Magna
Macedonia
Heraclea Lyncestis
Morocco
Tingi
Volubilis
Portugal
Alcácer do Sal
Aroeira
Lisbon
São Domingos de Rana
Romania
Constanta
Florești
Histria
Serbia
Sirmium
Slovenia
Nova Gorica
Spain
Badalona
Baelo Claudia
Baza
Caesaraugusta
Cartagena
Castille la Manche
Guimerà
Linares
Lleida
Montilla
Odena
Rubí
Sagunto
San Miguel de Corneja
Segóbriga
Verdú
Vilanova i la Geltrú
Yecla
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Sudan
Basa
Naga
Switzerland
Aventicum
Syria
Ad Dumayr
Palmyra
Philippopolis
Tunisia
Ain Draham
Ain Kahloulia
Carthage
Thugga
Tunis
Turkey
Aisepos
Amorium
Antioch of Pisidia
Aphrodisias
Bodrum
Chryse
Claros
Ephesos
Erythrai
Hierapolis
Istanbul
Latmos
Lykao Savatra
Milet
Mylasa
Pamukkale
Pergamon
Perge
Pompeiopolis
Priene
Sardis
Side
Sığacı
Smyrna
Troia
Zeugma
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Ukraine
Kytaion
Pantikapaion
Unknown
Unknown
Vatican City
Vatican City
West Bank
Maale Adummim
Tel er Ras
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Holder
Afghanistan
Kabul
Albania
Durres
Tirana
Algeria
Alger
Cherchell
Constantine
Djemila
Hammam Meskoutine
Lambèse
Lambaesis
Skikda
Souk-Ahras
Timgad
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Austria
Bregenz
Vienna
Belgium
Ath
Liège
Bosnia Herzegovina
Sarajevo
Bulgaria
Chissarja
Devnya
Kabyle
Kamen Bryag
Kyustendil
Silistra
Sofia
Varna
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Coratia
Zadar
Croatia
Šarić Struga
Pula
Split
Vid
Zagreb
Cyprus
Episkopi
Kouklia
Limassol
Paphos
Egypt
Alexandria
Deir Wadi Umm Hussein
France
Agen
Aix-les-Bains
Albertville
Annonay
Apt
Apt (Vaucluse)
Arles
Auriol
Auxerre
Avignon
Bavay
Fons-Outre-Gardon
Gaujac
Grenoble
Lausanne
Mandeure
Nîmes
Narbonne
Nissan-lez-Ensérune
Nuits-Saint-Georges
Paris
Quarante
Rodez
St. Bertrand-de-Comminges
Strasbourg
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Germany
Berlin
Bonn
Dresden
Frankfurt am Main
Kassel
Martberg
Neuss
Rommerskirchen
Speyer
Stuttgart
Trier
Wiesbaden
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Greece
Agrinion
Ancient Corinth
Athens
Chios
Corinth
Delos
Dion
Eretria
Florina
Ialysos
Isthmia
Kamiros
Kissamos
Knidos
Komotini
Kos
Lamia
Lefkada
Lidoriki
Lindos
Maroneia
Megara
Milos
Mytilene
Nafpaktos
Nafplio
Olympia
Oropos
Paros
Patras
Plaka
Polygyros
Rhodes
Samos
Samothraki
Sparta
Thessaloniki
Thyreos
Tinos
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Israel
Haifa
Jerusalem
Ne´ot Kdumim
Sa´ar
Tel Aviv
Tirat Zvi
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Italy
Agrigento
Aidone
Altino
Anacapri
Ancona
Apricena
Aquileia
Aquino
Asciano
Ascoli Piceno
Avezzano
Belluno
Bologna
Boscoreale
Bovino
Caronia
Castellammare di Stabia
Castroreale
Catania
Centuripe
Cerveteri
Chieti
Chiusi
Concordia Sagittaria
Conza della Campania
Ercolano
Grottaferrata
Guidonia Montecelio
Larino
Livorno
Luni
Matelica
Merlara
Milano
Modena
Montefiore dell'Aso
Morgantina
Muggia
Naples
Napoli
Nepi
Ostia Antica
Osuna
Padova
Paestum
Palermo
Palestrina
Perugia
Pignataro Interamna
Pompei
Ravenna
Rome
San Donà di Piave
San Felice sul Panaro
Syracuse
Teano
Terracina
Tivoli
Torre Annunziata
Trieste
Udine
Valesio
Velletri
Verucchio
Villadose
Volterra
Vulci
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Libya
Leptis Magna
Tripoli
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Bitola
Montenegro
Budva
Morocco
Fertassa
Rabat
Tanger
Volubilis
Netherlands
Leiden
Poland
Warsaw
Portugal
Campo Maior
Lisbon
São Domingos de Rana
Romania
Bucharest
Cluj-Napoca
Constanța
Sarmizegetusa
Russia
Moscow
Serbia
Sremska Mitrovica
Slovenia
Nova Gorica
Spain
Ador
Badalona
Barcelona
Baza
Cáceres
Calasparra
Cuenca
Guissona
Igualada
Linares
Mérida
Madrid
Montilla
Rubí
Sagunto
San Miguel de Corneja
Sant Pere de Ribes
Toledo
Vilanova i la Geltrú
Zaragoza
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Sudan
Khartoum
Switzerland
Avenches
Brugg
Geneva
Syria
Palmyra
Shahba
Tunisia
Ain Wassel
Carthage
Chimtou
Dougga
Tunis
Utica
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Turkey
Çeşme
Çorum
Amasra
Antalya
Aphrodisias
Bergama
Bodrum
Burdur
Chryse
Claros
Denizli Merkez
Didim
Ephesos
Gaziantep
Geyre
Istanbul
Izmir
Manisa
Milas
Milet
Pamukkale
Panderma
Pergamon
Perge
Priene
Sardis
Savatra (Yağlıbayat)
Selçuk
Side
Taşköprü
Troia
Turkey?
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Ukraine
Kerch
United Kingdom
Cambridge
Chester
Dover
Edenbridge
Liverpool
London
United Kingdom
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United States of America
USA
Unknown
Unknown
Vatican City
Vatican City
West Bank
Samaria (Shomron)
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Material
Basalt
Bronze
Silver plated
Bucova marble
Bucova
Clay
Freestone
Ivory
Limestone
(Jura)Kalk, Richtung Lothringen
Aurisian
Aurisina
Crystalline
From Karste in Yugoslavia
Grey
Hellbraun- cremefarben
Limestone
Limestone from Istria
Local
Soft
Subcrystalline
White
White Egyptian
White Limestone
White oolitic
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Marble
Blue
Blue marble
Blue Parnosas
Chios marble
Coarse crystalline white
Coarse-grained, grayish Aphrodisias
Cream
Cream colonial
Cream crystalline
Fine crystalline white
Fine grained light grey
Fine grained white
Gibbs: cream, Schaldach: Pentelic
Gibbs: Pentelic, Schaldach: white
Gibbs:, Schaldach: Pentelic
Gibbs: white, Schaldach: Pentelic
Gray
Grey
Grey streaked
Hymettian
Large-grained Greek
Lartian
Lartios
Light-coloured
Luna
Marble
Of Verona
Palombino
Parian
Pentelic
Proconnesian
Small crystal white
Stained white
White
White and green Cipollin
White Cipollino
White/fine-grained light blue
White Greek
White with streaks of gray
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Marble or alabaster
Marble?
Pietra dolce de Siracusa
Pietra dolce de Siracusa
Plaster
Sandstone
Local
Sandstone
Sandstone from Luxembourg
Streaked, from the Vosges Mountains
Yellow
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Stone
Calcareous, from Carso
Common
Cream and pink
Dark
Fine grained
Grey
Grey porous
Light-coloured
Porous
Pumice
Very hard
White
White, from Estaillades
White, of Histria
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Stone or marble
Gibbs: gray porous stone; Schaldach: marble
Stone or sandstone
Gibbs: porous stone; Schaldach: Kalksandstein
Stone or tufo
Gibbs: gray porous stone, Severino: tufo
Terracotta
Travertine
White
Tufa
Covered with red painted stucco
Covered with stucco
Tufa
With Stucco
Tufa-like
White
Unknown
Unspecified stone or marble
Gibbs: brownish creamy stone; Schaldach: marble
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Dating
3rd cent. BCE
2nd cent. BCE
1st cent. BCE
1st cent. CE
2nd cent. CE
3rd cent. CE
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Type
Cone
Conical
Conical?
Conical - northern transposed conical dial
Conical - roofed conical, vertex on the top surface
Conical - transposed conical dial
Unknown, conical or cylindrical
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Convex, Curved
At least four hour lines and a day curve are visible on the supplementary dial. No inscription is preserved.
Curved
Cylinder
Cylindrical
Cylindrical-convex cylinder
Cylindrical - convex cylindrical
Cylindrical-inclined cylinders
Cylindrical-vertical cylinders
Inclined hollow cylinder, summer half
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Plane
Planar
Planar-horizontal plane
Planar-meridian
Planar-meridian, east
Planar-meridian, west
Planar-prime vertical
Planar-prime vertical variant
Planar-vertical deviating
Planar-vertical plane
Plane
Plane east
Plane, south-east facing
Plane - south west
Plane, south-west facing
Plane - SW facing
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Sphere
Hollow (most probably spherical)
Spherical
Spherical-cut dials--central gnomon point
Spherical-cut/quarter dis-shaped
Spherical-hemispherical
Spherical-hemispherical--central gnomon point
Spherical-hemispherical--noncentral gnomon point
Spherical-hemispherical variant
Spherical-quarter spherical--central gnomon point
Spherical-roofed spherical
Spherical-spherical globe
Spherical-transposed hemispherical
Spherical unfinished
Spherical variant
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Unknown
Fragment of a hollowed surface
Fragments
Portables
Unknown
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