Dear Fabio; What an interesting find !
Considering the fact that by the time of construction of the sundial northern Finland was part of Sweden it would be worth to perform comparative analysis of the Tornio sundial with examples from the Stockholm Nordiska Museum. The Nordiska Museum has the largest collection of sundials in Northern Europe with quite many stone dials including several polyhedral dials. Though I haven't noted any example in the star-like form, I think that the carving form and style of the numerals might drop some light on the provenance of the dial. The collection is easily accesed via webpage: https://digitaltmuseum.org/search/ Just write"solur" in the search tab, and You will get some 600 related results. If You, or Susanna, would wish to contact Nordiska Museum, I would kindly suggest to contact Mr Leif Wallin <[email protected]>, museum curator, who was very helpful when I did my research on one sundial from their collection. The abundance of 17-18th century stone sundials in museum collections and Swedish auction catalogues, suggests that the Tornio dial could actually root from the Swedish diall making tradidtion, though the form is actually unusal ! Regards; ex Oulu student ;) Maciej Lose Od: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Do: "Sundial sundiallist" <[email protected]>; Wysłane: 12:45 Czwartek 2018-03-22 Temat: star-shaped sundial in Finland > Hi all > > I've a contact with Susanna Kuokkanen, a student of archeology of the > University of Oulu, Finland. > Oulu is quite close to the polar circle, on the gulf of Botnia. > > A star-shaped sundial was found during an axcavation for the > construction of a building in Tornio. > Tornio is just at the top of the gulf, on the border with Sweden. > Susanna sent me the photos of the sundial, you can see the card FI8 in > Sundial Atlas (www.sundialatlas.eu/atlas.php?so=FI8). > > It is an equinoctial sundial, star-shaped with 12 points, and another > sundial on its upper surface, without the gnomon. > Susanna was instructed by the university to do a research, later the > sundial will be moved to the Tornio museum. > She hasn't gnomonic notions and she found in Sundial Atlas some > star-shaped sundials and, above all, the menu 'gnomolab' where there are > many models of paper sundials. One of these, the app 7, is a star-shaped > sundial strikling similar with the find of Tornio. > I helped her to build the paper sundial for her latitude and it shows > the same indications. > In the area of Tornio there were many merchants from XVI to XVIII > centuries, it was a rich area for the fur market, and she thinks the > sundial come from another southern area, carried by one of these merchants. > > I asked her news about the basement, it'd have clarified the latitudine > of its origin, but it wasn't found. > > I'm writing a report for her with explanations how a star-shaped works > but an important point of her research is to understand the origin of > the sundial. > Have you some ideas about the probable provenance ? > > thank you, Fabio > > -- > > Fabio Savian > [email protected] > www.nonvedolora.eu > Paderno Dugnano, Milano, Italy > 45° 34' 9'' N, 9° 9' 54'' E, UTC +1 (DST +2) > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
