Identification
| ID in this catalogue | SC Petrie UC16500 |
| Type | Conical |
| Current Location | Petrie Museum, London |
| Catalogue Numbers |
UC16500 Dialface ID 188 Gibbs 3087 |
| Provenance | Hawara, Egypt |
| Date | 1st cent. CE- 2nd cent. CE, Roman period |
| Dimensions |
L 410 mm, H 270 mm Has a gnomon that is 2.42 inches long (Petrie 1911) |
| Material | Limestone |
| Markings and inscriptions | "Only the right half of the dial surface is preserved. Five hour lines (7, 8, 9, 10, 11) and parts of three day curves are visible in the photograph. Petrie found a configuration of lines on the top surface of the fragment which he suggests were used to align the instrument." (Gibbs 1976) |
| Notes |
Graßhoff (2015) states that this dial is in Tunisia, quite obviously because of a confusion with the sundial that shares its page in Gibbs (1976). Gibbs herself could not locate the dial and used Petrie's photograph and drawing to characterise the dial. The Petrie database confirms that it is with them in London. The Graßhoff (2015) bibliography locates the wrong plate in Petrie (1911): the photograph appears in Plate XVI, not Plate XV. |
| Literature |
Gibbs (1976) p. 306 |
Images
A photograph from the Petrie Museum online catalogue, http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/, under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 License. The photograph is © 2015 UCL:
Drawings in Petrie (1911) Plate XVI, show the additional lines that may be used for alignment:
