Three Further Greco-Roman Conical Sundials from Palmyra,Naples,and Abû Mînâ

Locher K. , “A further Hellenistic conical sundial from the Theatre of Dionysos in Athens”, Journal for the history of astronomy , xx (1989), 60–62, and “Two Greco-Roman sundials from Alexandria and Dion”, ibid. , xxiv (1993), 300–2.

Gibbs Sharon L. , Greek and Roman sundials (New Haven, 1976).

Jacek Koσciuk , “A conical sundial from Abû Mînâ”, Bulletin de laSociété d'Archéologie Copte , xxxi (1992), 43–54.

Gibbs , op. cit. , 30–35.

The underlined part of the designation is in Arabic type.

Byliński J. , Damaszener Mitteilungen , in press.

Gibbs , op. cit. , 33, and Koσciuk , op. cit. , Equations 1 and 6.

Gibbs , op. cit. , 33–35, and Koσciuk , op. cit. , Equations 8 and 9.

Koσciuk , op. cit. , Figures 4 and 5.

Gibbs , op. cit. , 87.

Ibid. , 71; Vitruvius , De architectura , I, 5, §25; Varro, De re rustica , III, chap. 5, §17.

See ref. 7.

See ref. 7.

Gibbs , op. cit. , Figure 17, and Koσciuk, Equations 1 to 8 with all parameters eliminated except ω, ε and ϕ.

See ref. 9.

See ref. 3.