The sundial in Epidauros in Greece that you can see at the website of
Karlheinz on http://www.antike-sonnenuhren.de/fotosaltepidavos.htm
has Japanese inscriptions: the signs for the four wind directions and
the twelve (chinese) zodiacal signs as ornaments.
Epidauros and the Japanese city Nishiki are partner cities. The
sundial is a gift of the city of Nishiki.
Willy LEENDERS
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
www.wijzerweb.be
Op 25-apr-09, om 10:32 heeft [email protected] het volgende geschreven:
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.h tm Some are not included, f.i. one in Thessaloniki I was
engaged in and those of Manfred Hüttig
Best wishes Karlheinz
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