Rudolf Hooijenga asked:
>
>A 12K picture is attached, I hope that's OK.
>My parents visited Israel last year. A guide thought it was some sort of
>sundial so my mother took this photo for me.
>If it is, I sure don't know how it worked. If it isn't, what could it be?
>Any thoughts out there?
>
As the markings appear to run for 360° I doubt if it is a sundial.  If you were 
to lay it flat however, then place a spinning pointer with a pivot in the 
central pit, you would have a primitive wheel-of-fortune.

Tony Moss

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