The book of sun-dials; originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty; now enl. and re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd (1900)
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty, Lloyd, Eleanor, Evans, Lewis · London, G. Bell · leaf 220
mes (see p.6), to which period the earliest knownspecimen of a portable dial must alsobe ascribed. This dial, which is madein the shape of a ham, was found inexcavations at Herculaneum in i 754,and is now in the Naples museum,where Miss Lloyd made the drawing from which the illustration istaken.… … DIAL FROM HERCULANEUM (sCALE 186 SUN-DIALS summer under the longest ; while across the upright lines are curvedones dividing the spaces each into six sections to represent six hoursfrom sunrise to noon, and from noon to sunset, in accordance with theplan adopted in other Roman dials, which gave to…
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