what leads you to assume that it is a sundial and not merely a decorative
element? sasch stephens
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:17:33 -0500
> From: patrick_pow...@compuserve.com
> Subject: Re: Earliest Roman Dial
> To: sund...@rrz.uni-koeln.de
>
> >...However, there is one dial for which I have attached a picture (32kb)
> which was found at Housteads Fort on Hadrian's Wall and
> which was undoubtedly not imported....<
>
> Hi Frank, Your dial might be the one I saw in a museum along Hadrian's Wall
> all those years ago - it certainly was of that form though it was then set
> flush in plaster in a large square wooden frame as far as I remember. I
> must say though that it doesn't seem to be what one would ordinarily think
> of as Roman. However Gibbs reports several Graeco-Roman vertical planar
> dials - indeed she has a section devoted to them, One (Gibbs 5022G),
> though apparently undated, being in the British Museum (BM Ref: 2546)and
> appearing very like this one. However without any attributed date it's hard
> to say if it is Roman. Whatever now that some parts of a water clock have
> been found along the Wall no doubt they must have had some dials there at
> that time even if none have yet been found. All very puzzling.
>
> Patrick
>
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