Alessandro Spadaro, Filiberto Chiabrando, Lorenzo Teppati Losé
The presented work reports the results of a multiscale and multi-sensors 3D metric survey achieved on the Arab Bath of Mezzagnone, an archaeological site in Sicily (Italy). Aerial and terrestrial techniques were combined to obtain detailed documentation of the selected asset and to explore the latest advancements in the archaeologicalheritage documentation domain. Specifically, the integration of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAV) photogrammetry using both nadir and oblique acquisitions, along with Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) technology, was used for detailed documentation of the whole...
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Evdokia Tema, Italo Maria Muntoni
Absolute dating techniques can offer important information about the chronological framework of archaeological findings mainly in the case of rescue excavations where the time and the resources for extended archaeological investigations are not available. In this study we present the dating results of three ancient kilns excavated near Canosa di Puglia, discovered during the construction of a new road. Archaeomagnetic investigation was carried out on 24 oriented in situ samples that allowed the determination of the direction of the Earth s magnetic field at the time of the kilns last firing....
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Noemi Orazi, Eva Pietroni, Fulvio Mercuri, Daniele Ferdani, Enzo D'Annibale, Giovanni Caruso, Diego Ronchi, Stefano Paoloni, Ugo Zammit
In this work the main results obtained in the framework of the Codex 4D project have been presented and discussed. In particular, pulsed thermography (PT) and RGB photogrammetry have been combined to obtain a 4D virtual representation of some ancient codes. The aim is to facilitate the end-user experience, giving the possibility to explore subsurface elements, detected by PT, in a 3D virtual model.
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Rocco Cancelliere, Leonardo Severini, Eleonora Kratter Thaler, Claudia Mazzuca, Vittoria Guglielmi, Patrizia Mussini, Laura Micheli
Rigid Gellan gel, composed of Gellan gum and calcium acetate, is known to be biocompatible and capable of absorbing water-soluble compounds present on fragile artwork. Moreover, when implemented on screen printed electrodes, it can result in a device providing both absorption and in situ, very fast electroanalytical detection of electroactive species of interest for cultural heritage researchers. In this application its properties and performances could be also modulated by doping with ionic liquids (ILs), an attractive family of all-ionic media, consisting of molecular salts with low...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.079
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Elodie Granget, Ocson Reginald Cocen, Mahdieh Shakoorioskooie, Zhan Qianru, Marian Nida Lumongsod-Thompson, Anders Kaestner, David Mannes, Laura Brambilla
This paper presents the methodology and preliminary results of the SNSF Sinergia project CORINT. The project aims to elucidate the corrosion phenomena of iron objects in various porous media, in particular iron archaeological artefacts (IAAs) in soil. A multimodal quantitative imaging technique, combining neutron and X-ray computed tomography (NX-CT), is being developed to study corrosion processes non-destructively. The methodology involves the registration and fusion of neutron and X-ray tomogram data (i.e., using a bivariate histogram), followed by segmentation using Gaussian mixture...
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Massimo Rippa, Vito Pagliarulo, Chiara Saltarelli, Maria Rosaria Vigorito, Gianluca Coda, Pasquale Mormile, Andrea Carpentieri, Melania Paturzo
The study focuses on an angel marble sculpture, placed on the central portal of the Gesu Nuovo church in Naples. The non-destructive and non-invasive optical techniques used were Active Thermography (AT) and 3D scanning. The measurements were carried out before and after the restoration of the marble sculpture, consisting in the consolidation of some disintegrated areas and in the removal of both black crusts and biodeteriogens, present in various areas of the sculpture. AT images provide a map of the structural homogeneity of the investigated areas, measuring the thermal response, which...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.077
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Giovanni Caruso, Noemi Orazi, Stefano Paoloni, Ugo Zammit, Fulvio Mercuri
Active infrared thermography has revealed to be an effective technique for non destructive analysis of ancient books. The working principle relies on heating the sample through the absorption of visible light and on subsequent detection of the infrared emission by means of a infrared camera. The technique allows one to investigate features buried into the artworks interior, affecting the heat diffusion inside the sample and inducing a variation in the infrared emission. In particular, it is possible to read written scraps used for the end leafs of old books and located between the end papers...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.076
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Daniela Galazzo, Shirly Ben Dor, Assaf Yasur-Landau
This ongoing project (until September 2023) focuses on the study of two anthropoid coffin-lids donated to the Israel Museum in the early 1980s. The first one, the coffin-lid of Djedmut, Chantress of Amun-Re (Inv. IMJ 82.2.341), dating from the late 21st Dynasty to the early part of the 22nd Dynasty. The second one, the coffin-lid of Ptahhotep (Inv. IMJ 82.2.342), can be dated no earlier than the Late Period or even as late as the early Hellenistic Period. In the present research, RTI is combined with multispectral imaging, valuable for the study of the pigments, to improve a detailed...
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Lorenzo Fei, Francesco Freddolini, Federica Grigoletto, Vincenzo Maria Lacolla, Laura Leopardi, Saverio Giulio Malatesta, Leonora Marzullo, Maria Onori, Giorgio Ortolani, Antonio Pugliano, Paolo Rosati
The MirrorLAB project, nearing completion, seeks to employ innovative tools to enhance Rome s public museum heritage within aristocratic palaces, focusing on their historical and morphological relationship to the city. The project aims to expose cultural content through inter-scalar, inter-modal ICT, making it homogeneous and operable by comparison and aggregation, using a geodatabase for cognitive data and a technological system for disseminating meaningful data within narratives. The initiative is built on three actions: documentation of aristocratic palaces housing art collections from...
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Silvia Bertacchi, Francisco Juan-Vidal, Filippo Fantini
Over the last 10 years, an international multidisciplinary research group formed by the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, the Instituto Universitario de Restauración del Patrimonio (IRP) of the UPV and the direction of Villa Adriana and Villa d Este Institute, has carried out a series of surveys and analyses on well-known buildings at the Hadrian s Villa. The paper summarises the results of these studies, that besides documentation, are focused on the interpretation of ancient texts related to the world of design. These researches have led to the development of a...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.073
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