Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 3) (London, 1904)

SUNDIALS.

413

A certain Phaidros, son of Zoilos, an archon, known
from another inscription to have huilt the latest stage of
the theatre of Dionysos at Athens about the year 300 a.d.,
was probably the same person, although the formula here
employed (eVoiei) seems more applicable to the maker of
the dial than to a donor or dedicator.—Athens. Elgin Coll.

Pentelic marble. Height, 1 foot 8 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches.
Spon, Voyage, III., 2, p. 176. The dial was in Spon's time in the
church of Panagia Gorgopiko. Visconti, Memoirs on the Sculp-
tures in the Collection of the Earl of Elgin (1816), p. 101 (with
an astronomical commentary by Delambre); Mus. Marbles, IX.,
pi. 43, fig. 1; Mansell, No. 1337 ; Brunn, Gesch. d. Griech.
Kiinstler, L, p. 557 ; Ellis, Elgin Marbles, EL, p. 110; Greek
Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., No. LXXII.; C.I.G., 522; Inscrip-
tioncs Graecae, III., 427; Loewy, Inschriften Griech. Bildhauer,
No. 450.

2545. (Fig. 68.) Sun-dial, in the form of about the sixth part
of a hollow sphere, sup-
ported on two lions'
heads, which spring
from lions' feet. The
concave surface is grad-
uated into twelve hour
spaces, and there are
remains of the attach-
ment of the gnomon.

Marble. Height, 1 foot
9 inches ; width of
upper part, 1 foot
7 inches. Purchased,
1821. Ellis, Town.
Gall., EL, p. 310;
Grceco-Roman Guide, Fig. 68. No. 2545.

EL, No. 57.

2546. Sun-dial with two oblong plane surfaces, each divided
into twelve hour spaces of 15°, radiating in a semi-circle
from the gnomon, which was of bronze, and is now