Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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249. Sundial

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.

Text

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)

Tetrastoon, view from north east (1975)

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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