online on a page the Spartan simplicity of which masks my ignorance, if not too well. Compared to some of the extraordinary doohickeys I've seen on this list, it's plain vanilla, although with one mildly amusing feature. Now my knowledge of Tuscany is very slight, a few scattered day trips, not much more, to about 7 or 8 towns; and I'm not primarily a sundial buff: so that if I saw this one in Pitigliano, the region probably has its fair quota!
And thus I've been dragged kicking and screaming into having a small sundial site. I look at sundials mostly as objects of antiquarian curiosity; still, the site's there, including the dial in Tuscany, and a couple of other oddities, one of which I found outrageous although maybe it's quite common:
<http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/To pics/sundials/home.html>
For those of you whose e-mail readers do horrible things to such longer URIs, it's accessible from my homepage, as in
Bill Thayer <http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/home.html>
