object

Sundial

Objects

A named shadow-clock that reads the lamp’s path on a marked face. Not a clepsydra, not a merkhet, and not The Gnomon world place.

Also known as Sun dial

Roman religion

  • Sundial appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History discusses sundials among the timekeepers of Roman practice. A named shadow-clock in that encyclopedia, not a clepsydra and not The Gnomon world place.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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