- Subject
- Sundials
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Hostlowsky
- Provenance
- Lewis Evans Collection
- Primary inscriptions
- ".M.H.F." "Hostlowsky" (bottom of the ivory compass)
- Object type
- Diptych dial
- Dimensions
- Height: 80mm Width: 95mm Depth: 18mm
- Inventory No
- 40631
- Accession Number
- 1924-0/part
Description
Brass diptych dial with ivory inset compass; lunar volvelle; vertical string-gnomon dial for ordinary hours, vertical string-gnomon dial for Babylonian and Italian hours; horizontal string-gnomon dial, compass; calendar volvelle and times of sunrise and sunset. Sides have tables of epacts and dominical letters.
