Nouvelles contributions à l'étude des cadrans solaires découverts dans les cités grecques de Dobroudja

Abstract

Remus Mihai Feraru, New contributions to the study of the sundials discovered in the Greek cities of Dobruja, DHA 34/2, 2008, 65-80. Abstract : Among the artefacts found in the Greek cities of the West coast of the Euxine Sea are a fragment of a sundial from Istros and a whole one from Cumpăna, in the territory of Tomi. The Istros marble fragment was probably part of a hemispheric collecting area sundial ; he was set for the latitude of Istros (44°31'), and has been dated to the end of the IVth century or the beginning of the IInd B. C. The sundial discovered at Cumpăna has a cylindrical collecting area, and lias been set at the latitude of Tomi (44°07'). It has been dated to the IInd century A. C. It is difficult to identify the origin of the marble used for the production of these instruments ; it may come from the Proconnesus' marble quarries which belonged to the city of Cyzicus. Another possible origin could be the quarries of Dokimcion (Asia Minor).