8.409. Sundial
- Description:
- White marble columnar altar; the diameter of the top surface, which is slightly ovel, is 0.78 (north-south), 0.885 (west to east), to serve as a sundial
- Text:
- Inscribed on the top surface; there is a hole where the gnomon may have stood.
- Letters:
- Lunate.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century (context, lettering).
- Findspot:
- Tetrastoon: standing with its base 0.55 below the present pavement level, and protruding above it.
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published, from Reynolds, by P. Pattenden, JHS 101 (1981), 101-112 whence SEG 1981.931; BE 1982.360, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 868; republished by •Roueché (2004), 249.
- Text constituted from:
- Publication; transcriptions (Reynolds, M. Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1χιμερινή
- 1θερ[ι]νή
- 1ἰσημε-
- 2ρινή
- 1ΧΙΜΕΡΙΝΗ
- 1ΘΕΡ[·]ΝΗ
- 1ΙΣΗΜΕ
- 2ΡΙΝΗ
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χιμερινή
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θερ
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ι
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νή
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ἰσημε
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ρινή
Translation:
a. (along the winter solsitial curve): Winter.
b. (along the summer solstitial curve): Summer.
c. (along the equinoctial line): Equinoctial.
Commentary:
See bibliography and, for the context, discussion at ala2004 V.16.
Photographs:
- View (1974)
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- Face (2004)
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- View from east (2004)
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- View from north (2004)
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- Tetrastoon, view from south east (1975)
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- Tetrastoon, view from north east (1975)
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