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Hi Hal,
for all about the gree-roman sundials in Greece,
write to Manfred Huttig (the greatest!).
His address is:
Manfred Huttig
Berliner Strasse 6
D - 38300 Wolfembuttell
Ciao
Nicola Severino
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:09
PM
Subject: Sundials in Greece
11-17-03
This is a belated thank you to all who
responded to my request for information on sundials in Greece. Since my
trip was for the purpose of learning Greek folk dances, I didn't have much
time to search for sundials. However, I did see the following few along
our tour route:
Athens - Following
Karlheinz's suggestion, I scanned the wall between the Theater of Dionysus and
the Acropolis with my 200mm camera lens but could find nothing. Perhaps
the very extensive restoration going on in preparation for the 2004 Olympics
blocked my view? The Tower of the Winds is being restored as well.
A nice modern (1929) horizontal dial is located at the entrance to the
extensive gardens in Athens. Finally there is a time
oriented sculpture located in the new subway station near the Parliment.
With some stretch of my imagination it contains a spoked wheel with what
appears to be a gnomon perpendicular to its plane with a spherical shadow
sharpener at its end.
Cephallonia and Corfu - We went to these islands
by ferry. They are beautiful but I found no sundials!
Ioannina -
We stopped here enroute to Metsovo (no sundials there). Unfortunately,
we stopped for only one hour so I could not get to the island where
Karlheinz said there is a sundial in one of the monasteries there.
However, a few of our tour party found a modern horizontal sundial at the
entrance to the Jewish museum near a mosque in the main part of town and
photographed it for me.
Florina - I saw the sundial in the
Archeological Museum and gave a short talk on it to the tour group. As
there is no identification of the sundial, I promised to send a description to
the staff ( I'll base it on Gibbs book, and Nocola Severino's CD -
Reinhold, thanks for the CD information). The evening we were in
Florina, our bus was in the middle of a serious gridlock. While waiting
for a number of local folk dancers to turn back rear view mirrors on the cars
on a narrow street and convincing a truck driver to park on the sidewalk so we
could reach our hotel, we noticed a modern horizontal sundial in front of a
church!
Kozani - no sundials!
Thesssalonki - The German and
Anatolia Schools are no longer there. We think we found Yeni Tsami but
could not locate the sundial. We found the sundial in the YMCA
square. It is a vertical declining dial inscribed on a rock, sans
gnomon, installed in 1989. One interesting experience occurred in trying to
locate a dial near the waterfront that several people stated was there. After
one shop keeper informed us that everything closes at 3:30 pm on Saturday, we
gave up!
Thanks again for your help. Please let me know if I can
answer any questions.
Hal Brandmaier
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