Archimedes' Dial

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Archimedes' Dial is a legendary ancient device in the Indiana Jones franchise, reputedly created by the Greek mathematician Archimedes and sought for its extraordinary power to manipulate time.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional artifact
legendary device
appearsIn Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny NERFINISHED
appearsInFranchise Indiana Jones NERFINISHED
associatedWith ancient Greece
time travel
attributedTo Archimedes NERFINISHED
category fictional time-manipulation device
conflictDriver race between protagonists and antagonists
creatorInFiction Archimedes NERFINISHED
culturalOriginInFiction Hellenistic period NERFINISHED
depictedAs intricate mechanical dial
fictionalUniverse Indiana Jones universe
genreContext adventure film
fantasy
hasComponentInFiction two-part mechanism
hasFunctionInFiction enabling travel to specific points in time
locating temporal fissures
hasProperty extraordinary power
time manipulation
introducedInWork Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny NERFINISHED
introducedInYear 2023
languageOfWork English
medium film
narrativeRole MacGuffin NERFINISHED
ownershipInFiction Archimedes NERFINISHED
partOfPlotElement search for a powerful ancient artifact
settingAssociation Syracuse NERFINISHED
soughtBy Indiana Jones NERFINISHED
Jürgen Voller NERFINISHED

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