Hi John, it is not a matter of sun how many sundials you will find in a country but of culture. 130 Graeco-Roman dials you will find in the Greek magazines- you will not see many of them in the museums. In Byzantine times the interest in sundials got lost. They had them only in monastries and if a monastry was rich they did many renovations there and between 1500 and 1800 the monks had no more interests in dials: so they disappeared. 1500 to 1800 is also the Ottoman time of Greece. But if you travel through Greece you shall find only few Ottoman buildings especially only few mosques because they were destroyed by the Greeks. And with the mosque also the sundial on it vanished (almost every mosque had a sundial). Also the Venitians had the power on some islands and in some harbour towns.There you shall find also some dials. After Greece became independent, lets say from 1900 till 2000, no interest in sundials reappeared. For instance a sculptor on Tinos who did one for his own but not to sell. I know only of Manfred Hüttig, a German, who worked out some beautiful sundials for Greek customers. Many people in Greece even do not know how a sundial looks like. Such cultural break as in Greece happened in former Yugoslavia also as in Bulgaria or Rumania.
Hi Darek, I know about 25 dials from the last 1500 years, most are on my webpage of Greek dials: http://www.antike-sonnenuhren.de/fotos.htm Some are not included, f.i. one in Thessaloniki I was engaged in and those of Manfred Hüttig Best wishes Karlheinz ________________________________________________________________________ AOL eMail auf Ihrem Handy! Ab sofort können Sie auch unterwegs Ihre AOL email abrufen. Registrieren Sie sich jetzt kostenlos.
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