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Polyhedral dial
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      painted stone
    • Dimensions:
      height 294 mm, base 142x201 mm
    • Inventory:
      2495
    • Polyhedral dial (Inv. 2495)
    • Polyhedral dial (Inv. 2495)

Various types of dials are etched on a complex stone polyhedron. Some traces of gilding remain. Only one gnomon survives. The instrument does not seem of Italian origin. Provenance: Medici collections.

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