Italic sundial           

Museo della Civiltà Contadina del Friuli Imperiale (Sundials courtyrad)    

Photo n° 3

“Italic time” was a method to measure the time used in our peninsula from 1200 until the end of 1700; it was imported and spread by the Republic of Venice, which had learnt it from the peoples who overlook the Mediterranean basin, such as the Greeks, the Jews, and the Muslims.

The time indicated corresponds to the 24^th part of the time that occurs in between one sunset and the next.

The picture of this sundial was taken a little more than one hour before sunset on December 22^nd (winter solstice).

The reading of a sundial with the gnomon perpendicular to the wall is carried out by watching the tip of the shadow of the rod.