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249. Sundial

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Description

  • Monument: White marble columnar altar; the diameter of the top surface, which is slightly ovel, is 0.78 (north-south), 0.885 (west to east).
  • Text: Inscribed on the top surface; there is a hole where the gnomon may have stood.
  • Letters: Lunate.
  • Date: Fifth-sixth century.

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a
  χιμερινή
b
  θερ[ι]νή
c
  ἰσημε-

Translation

a. (along the winter solsitial curve): Winter.

b. (along the summer solstitial curve): Summer.

c. (along the equinoctial line): Equinoctial.

Photographs

View (1974) Face (2004) View from east (2004) View from north (2004) Tetrastoon, view from south east (1975)
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Tetrastoon, view from north east (1975)
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Commentary

See Pattenden (1981) and, for the context, discussion at V.16.

Locations

  • Found: Tetrastoon: standing with its base 0.55 below the present pavement level, and protruding above it.
  • Original: Findspot.
  • Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

  • Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition.
  • Bibliography: Published, from Reynolds, by P. Pattenden, JHS 101 (1981), 101-112 whence SEG 1981.931; BE 1982.360, PHI 868.
  • Text constituted from: Publication; transcriptions (Reynolds, M. Roueché).

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