The Prosciutto Sundial
Casting Light on an Ancient Roman Timepiece from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2024. december 18.
- ISBN 9780197749388
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem368 oldal
- Méret 224x152x27 mm
- Súly 658 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 77 547
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Rövid leírás:
The Prosciutto Sundial is the first comprehensive study of the sundial in the shape of a miniature prosciutto from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum from its rediscovery in 1755 to modern times. Drawing on contemporary correspondence and manuscripts, early philological and scientific assessments, and later published accounts, it catalogs the many attempts by scholars and lay people alike to understand how it functioned. It explains the significance of its context in the Villa and, through the results of empirical analysis using a 3D model, highlights the remarkable accuracy of this unique ancient timepiece.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
Recovered in 1755 during excavations in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, the prosciutto sundial is the earliest known portable Roman sundial. Palm-sized and in the shape of an Italian cured ham, its silver-plated cast bronze form cleverly combines an accurate modelling of a prosciutto with a relatively sophisticated scientific device capable of capturing the seasonal hours of the zodiacal year by employing the pig's tail to cast the sun's shadow onto the dial. This book explores the significance of this curious object's discovery in the Villa dei Papiri and offers the first comprehensive survey of its reception and analysis by drawing on contemporary correspondence and manuscripts, travel journals, popular accounts, archaeological studies, and scientific and horological assessments.
Christopher Parslow shows how the prosciutto sundial is a rare example of an ancient artifact that has attracted the attention of a very broad audience, from archaeologists, art historians, and philologists to astronomers, philosophers, and sundial aficionados. The backdrop to its history features bitter infighting in the Bourbon court, clandestine descriptions circulating on the international scholarly network, and jockeying for preeminence among scholars in the learned foreign academies. Despite this long history, no scholar has treated the prosciutto adequately in full or analyzed it correctly because they lacked crucial evidence available only by examining the actual object in detail. Parslow addresses that shortcoming by providing results obtained through a 3D model to offer the first empirical analysis since the initial assessment by the Bourbon court of the prosciutto's remarkably accurate capabilities as a timepiece.
Provides a thorough account of the discovery, dissemination, and interpretation of this diminutive, portable horological tool…. Beyond scrupulously documenting its reception, Parslow employs a 3D-printed model of the prosciutto to field-test its accuracy. The erudition on display in this well-illustrated text is as wide-ranging as it is engaging, with a multidisciplinary appeal…. Highly recommended.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Discovery
2. Analysis
3. Enlightenment
4. Observations
Appendix A: Comparison of Grid Dimensions
Appendix B: Table of Horary Readings
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