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Polyhedral Dial
Unsigned
Date unknown; origin unknown
Sandstone; 95 mm in height

This sandstone polyhedral dial is in the form of a regular dodecahedron. Its faces are weathered and damaged and only three of them have traces of hour lines. Each of these three faces has a slot in which a gnomon would originally have been fixed.

There is no indication of the origin or date of this dial.

Stephen Johnston

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 40431

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