Dear dialers all,

Last November I had the very good fortune to get a special tour of the
prisons of the Inquisition under the church of S. Domenico of Narni in
central Italy. One of the cells was covered with mostly 18th-century
graffiti, among which there appears to be a sundial: a dial, about the size
of a modern wall clock, numbered I thru VI, with apparently a gnomon, now
bent.

I have a good photo of this *thing* and some further details here:
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/private/sundial.html

Can anyone clear up about what to me is a total mystery? Thanks in advance
to any who try (or who point me to the obvious and elementary).


Bill Thayer
   LacusCurtius
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman

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