The prosciutto sundial : casting light on an ancient Roman timepiece from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum /

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 rel...

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