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Dear Johnand members of the Sundial List,
These arethe greek names for the respective solstices and the equinoxes carved
on over25 ancient sundials (planar and hollow), most of them are in Sharon
Gibbs’ book(from Delos: 1001, 1072, 4001; from Pompeii: 4007; from Rome: 4008,
4009, 4010;from Ephesos: 3058: etc).
As for thefront face, normally it should be oblique in the plane of
thecelestial equator, but it happens that some ancient conical and spherical
sundialsare not. Here the image is misleading because the disappearanceof the
corners can give the impression that the face is vertical. We should have a
side photo to know what it really is.
Regards
AliGuerbabi
35.547 N /6.16 E
Le jeudi 9 avril 2020 à 08:54:55 UTC+1, John Davis via sundial
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text is therefore in an attachment.Dear Frans,
The picture that Dan-George pointed us to is excellent and intriguing too. My
reading of the lettering is slightly different from yours. Starting from the
top (presumably the winter solstice), I get
X I M E P I N H H M E P I N H E P I N H
where the columns represent the spaces between the hour lines. There could be
some misreadings here. It is clearly not the standard Greek system of using the
first letters of their alphabet as numbers but I don’t recognise the names of
the seasons either. Looking through Sharon Gibbs’ book, I couldn’t find a
similar set of inscriptions. Can any classical scholars help us?
As a second point, the front face of the marble looks to be vertical in the
photo but I found another view online which seems to show it cut back at an
oblique angle. Both forms of dial are known - which is this?
Regards,
John
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Flowton Dials http://www.flowton-dials.co.uk/
BSS Editor http://sundialsoc.org.uk/publications/the-bss-bulletin/
On 8 Apr 2020, at 18:37, Maes, F.W. <[email protected]> wrote:
Dan-George, thank you for the link! That is a beautiful ancient scaphe dial.The
article says: "The sundial features ... Greek names of seasons". I can read a
number of characters, which at all three date lines (equinox and solstices)
seem to include MEPINH. What season names are these?
Keep healthy!
Frans Maes
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:33 PM Roser Raluy <[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you, it looks great!Roser Raluy
Missatge de Dan-George Uza <[email protected]> del dia dt., 7 d’abr. 2020
a les 10:12:
Hello, I've just read about the discovery of an antique sundial in Turkey.
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/2000-year-old-sundial-unearthed-in-southern-turkeys-denizli
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