Objects

A checklist of objects in the "Time and Cosmos" exhibition, fall 2016.

Image of a part of a marble sundial with Oscan inscriptions at the bottom. The sundial is conical, slightly chipped off along the edges and broken at the corners. There are animal legs (knee to toe) on the left and right sides of the inscription.

Conical Sundial with Oscan Dedicatory Inscription

Two blocks of marble joined together at one side to form a quadruple vertical sundial with inscribed lines and Greek labels.

Quadruple Vertical Sundial with Inscription

Fragment of Egyptian Clepsydra Representing Philip Arrhidaeus Offering to Egyptian Deities

A Egyptian mini vertical sundial created in alabaster. The sundial has an inverted fan appearance with inscribed lines.

Egyptian Miniature Vertical Sundial

Image of the fragments of an equatorial sundial with Greek inscription, made out of marble. Six pieces are reassembled in an irregular shape with chipped edges.

Equatorial Sundial with Greek Inscriptions

Image of half spherical sundials made of marble. The half spheres are carved out and placed opposite to each other. The block has a point at the front.

Double Spherical Sundial with Greek Inscriptions

Two rectangular slabs of white marble placed adjacent to each other with inscribed lines at the top center, making a vertical sundial.

Double Vertical Sundial

Image of a large marble cup or bowl with inscribed lines and Greek labels on the inside. A hole through the side allows sunlight from outside to indicate the time on the inscribed lines.

Roofed Spherical Sundial with Greek Inscriptions

Image of rectangular marble horizontal sundial with a grid-like pattern and inscribed Greek labels on it.

Horizontal Sundial with Greek Inscriptions

Image of a quarter of a marble sundial with greek inscription.

Double Conical Sundial with Greek Inscriptions

Image of a marble statue on a pedestal with a conical sundial and an animal's front legs (knee to toe)

Conical Sundial

Image of a irregularly triangular fragment of a bronze dial plate with constellation-resembling human forms inscribed on it.

Fragment of a Dial Plate from a Mechanical Water Clock with Constellation Pictures

Image of a portable bronze sundial that is shaped like a ham. The sundial is suspended from a metal mount for exhibition.

Portable Sundial in the Shape of a Ham

Image of a portable universal bronze circular sundial with concentric and radiating lines inscribed on one face and labeled with Roman numerals. A gnomon of the same material projects above and along the plane of the circular plate.

Portable Universal Sundial

Image of a portable universal brass circular sundial: a disk inscribed with concentric and radiating lines, Greek labels, and figures of human heads.

Portable Universal Sundial with Gearwork Calendrical Apparatus

Image of a portable three-ringed armillary sundial made of copper alloy.

Portable Armillary Sundial

Various medical laboratory instruments and tools arranged together in an image. Suite of artifacts includes glass and ceramic vessels and bowls, metallic instruments, ceramic lamps, and irregularly shaped pills.

Objects from a Roman Physician's Tomb

Image of a set of five geometrical and measuring instruments made out of bronze and shaped like disks, a triangle, a right angle, and a small rectangle.

Ensemble of Surveyor's Instruments

Image of a portable cylindrical pillar sundial with a sharp bronze nomon projecting from the top at a right angle to the main cylinder..

Portable Cylindrical Pillar Sundial

Image of a portable cylindrical sundial made from bone. The sundial has two parts: the hollow cylinder and an insertable plug housing the gnomon, which can be rotated to project at a right angle to the cylinder for use or be contained within it for storage.

Portable Cylindrical Sundial

A marble block with three columns of Latin text engraved per per side and images of the zodiac on the top.

Roman Calendar Inscription (Menologium Rusticum Colotianum) with Zodiac, Festivals, and Agricultural Activities