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Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

White marble columnar altar; the diameter of the top surface, which is slightly ovel, is 0.78 (north-south), 0.885 (west to east), to serve as a sundial

Description of Text

Inscribed on the top surface; there is a hole where the gnomon may have stood.

Description of Letters

Lunate.

Date

Fifth-sixth century (context, lettering).

Edition χιμερινή θερινή ἰσημερινή
Translation a. (along the winter solsitial curve): Winter.b. (along the summer solstitial curve): Summer.c. (along the equinoctial line): Equinoctial.
Commentary

See bibliography and, for the context, discussion at V.16.

Locations

Found: Tetrastoon: standing with its base 0.55 below the present pavement level, and protruding above it. . Original location: Findspot.. Last recorded location: Findspot..

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published, from Reynolds, by P. Pattenden, JHS 101 (1981), 101-112 whence SEG 1981.931; BE 1982.360, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 868; republished by Roueché (2004), 249.

Text Constituted From

Publication; transcriptions (Reynolds, M. Roueché).

Photographs

View (1974)
Face (2004)
View from east (2004)
View from north (2004)
Tetrastoon, view from south east (1975)
Tetrastoon, view from north east (1975)