Along each declination-line, "Merine" is written (if, as it seems to me, H is an E). I used to know someone whose 1st language was Greek, and "Mera" means "Day".
If the M is absent from the summer solstice line, maybe it got obliterated over the millennia. The declination-lines of course mark special days, and maybe that's all that "Merina" is saying. ...and surely it isn't really necessary to explicitly number the hour-lines. Maybe the user just counts them. Of course the dial is a Hemicycleum, the classical and ancient stationary-dial. It's said to have been introduced by Berosus in Chaldea, in the same century in which the article's dial was made. It seems to me that they said that the Hemicycleum and Hemisphereum were soon imported to and adopted by Greece, and later Rome. I read that the dial surface of both was spherical. Surely that would be a particularly difficult surface to carve accurately, but that's what they say. The Hemicycleum is my favorite stationary dial, and it's the next one that I'll make (but it will be cardboard & paper, or sheet-plastic, and the dial-surface will be cylindrical. Michael Ossipoff Aprilis 9th Aries 21st 16 Th On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:01 AM guerbabi ali via sundial < [email protected]> wrote: > Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die > eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. > > This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message > text is therefore in an attachment. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: guerbabi ali <[email protected]> > To: John Davis <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 12:01:23 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Denizli sundial > > Dear John and members of the Sundial List, > > > > These are the greek names for the respective solstices and the equinoxes > carved on over 25 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 the front face, normally it should be oblique in the plane of the > celestial equator, but it happens that some ancient conical and spherical > sundials are not. Here the image is misleading because the disappearance > of the corners can give the impression that the face is vertical. We > should have a side photo to know what it really is. > > > > Regards > > > > Ali Guerbabi > > 35.547 N / 6.16 E > > > Le jeudi 9 avril 2020 à 08:54:55 UTC+1, John Davis via sundial < > [email protected]> a écrit : > > > Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die > eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. > > This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message > 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 > ————— > Dr J Davis > 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 > > Best regards, > > -- > Dan-George Uza > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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