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 64
which now stands in theLouvre beside the Phoenician fragment. Colonel Laussedat points outthat the conical was an improvement upon the spherical dial, as thesurface of the cone presents an easiersurface to work upon. Like the hemi-cycle, it was hollowed out of a rectan-gular block of marble, so it… … PHCENICIAN DIAL. LOUVRE. It had evidently been dedicated to agod, and no doubt belonged to atemple. Abdosir is a well-knownname in Phoenician inscriptions. Thestone was found in the ruins of ahouse, and in the same locality otherinscribed stones Avere discovered. One of these had belonged to a…
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