- Subject
- Sundials
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Johann Gebhart
- Provenance
- Purchased at auction from Christie's in 2002, with assistance from the Resource/Science Museum PRISM Grant Fund.
- Primary inscriptions
- Punched "IOHAN GEBHART APVD FOSSAM SAGITTAR:"
- Physical material
- Ivory
- Object type
- Diptych dial part
- Dimensions
- Height: 1cm Width: 13.5cm Depth: 10.5cm Weight: 0.2kg
- Inventory No
- 58226
- Accession Number
- 2002-6
Description
Town view of Nuremberg on underside. Upperside has horizontal dial for ordinary and Babylonian or Nuremberg hours, an empty compass bowl and an explanatory text panel.
