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![]() Horizontal Dial One side is engraved with the names of the winds and cardinal points on the limb,'SEPTE The other side of the dial is inscribed with the names of the winds,'TRAMO The compass is inscribed with the initials of the names of the winds in Italian,'P{onente}','M{aestro}','T{ramontana}','G{reco}','[cross]','S{cirocco}','O{stro}','Ga:{rbino}' and it is now wrongly oriented by 90?. The bottom of the compass has a weight so that it remains horizontal on turning the dial, and is inscribed'Romae anno d The dial was bequeathed by Octavius Morgan and is described in F. A. B. Ward, A Catalogue of European Scientific Instruments in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities of the British Museum (London, 1981), p. 22, no.13. Ilaria Meliconi |