Emanuele Brienza
The world of geomatics today provides new tools, smart, low cost and easy-to-use for archaeological research in the field, from geographical positioning to detailed survey of past evidence. These instruments, light and not bulky, interface directly with tablets, I-Pads or smartphones via intuitive applications and speed up the data collection in the field, making the spatial and typological integration of archeological record increasingly and easier. However, to what extent these tools, beyond their apparent effectiveness, are precise and reliable and in which frameworks work better or...
TC4 MetroArchaeo 2023
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· 2023
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Andrea Cataldo, Antonio Masciullo, Emanuele Piuzzi, Raissa Schiavoni
The environmental conditions and the humidity level are crucial factors in caring for artworks. The aim of this work is to propose a method for on-site non-invasive moisture monitoring of wooden artworks or structures. In this regard, a truncated open-ended coaxial probe was designed, implemented, and tested to sense (in combination with a miniaturized Vector Network Analyzer) the variations of water content in woods and stones. More in detail, for the experimental tests, two types of wood (seasoned fir and not seasoned fir) and a limestone, used in Italian Artworks and structures, were...
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· 2023
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Livio D'Alvia, Ludovica Apa, Emanuele Rizzuto, Zaccaria Del Prete
Microwave resonance-based techniques have become increasingly popular for the non-destructive testing of wood materials, as they enable the measurement of moisture content without causing damage. This paper presents a preliminary study focusing on the most suitable way of placing wood samples on two microwave planar coupled ring resonators, specifically the capacitive and inductive configurations, for water content measurements. The study aims to assess the impact of sample positioning on measurement accuracy, considering two different positions corresponding to the coupling points: between...
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· 2023
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Kasper Mayntz Paasch, Alexander Petersen Paasch
This paper analyzes the design of ancient catapults and compares the two known design formulas for Greek catapults, based on a standardized design for Hellenistic torsion-based catapults. It is hypothesized that, as both formulas, one for an arrow shooting catapult and one for a stone thrower, were considered to give the optimum design regarding performance, that both express the same optimal design. This could be used to determine the length/width of catapult arrows for optimally designed catapults, where no catapult arrow parts so far are known to have been discovered. In order to...
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· 2023
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.039
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Eleonora Marconi, Antonio Budano, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Federico Fina, Alberto Botti, Sandro Tassa, Ottavia Palacino, Lorenzo Conte, Marianna Franco, Francesco Pacetti, Caterina Coletti, Armida Sodo, Luca Tortora
Ancient pottery in archaeological sites is typically found as broken fragments. The collection, classification, and assembling of those pieces into their original artifact may take years of hard work, especially when the fragments are irregular, intermixed with parts of different vessels, or if some key pieces are missing. This problem is traditionally handled via two main steps: (1) the Classification of Archaeological Fragments into similar groups (CAF) and (2) the Reconstruction of each group into the original Archaeological Objects (RAO). Over the years, many alternatives have been...
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· 2023
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.038
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Amira Souliman, Eva Leitão, Cristina Nozes, Patrícia Moita, Cristina Galacho
The analytical characterization of mortar samples from the roman cryptoporticus of Lisbon, Portugal, was carried out by a multi-analytical archaeometric approach by means of Optical Microscopy (Stereo zoom and Petrographic microscope), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA-DTG), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy - Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), Acid attack and Granulometric analysis. The Roman Cryptoporticus of Lisbon, also known as the Roman Galleries of Rua da Prata (Lisbon, Portugal), dates from the 1st century AD. The samples were divided into six groups,...
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· 2023
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.037
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Michele Punzo, Daniela Tarallo, Vincenzo Di Fiore, Vincenzo Belelli, Carmelo Rizzo, Alberto Villari, Carla Sfameni, Marco Arizza
In the search for bodies of archaeological interest at shallow depths, geophysical methods can provide useful indications. The aim of the present work, carried out in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Cerveteri and Tarquinia, was to detect the presence of tombs/graves and/or buried structures in an unexplored area of Banditaccia Necropolis (Cerveteri and Tarquinia Archaeological Park), one of the largest ancient necropolis in the entire Mediterranean area. In the investigated area, two different non-destructive geophysical techniques have been employed: Ground-Penetrating Radar...
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· 2023
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.036
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Nicola Masini, Gabriella Strano, Costanza Fiorentino, Domenico Conte, Nicodemo Abate, Antonio Loperte, Antonio Minervino Amodio, Alfonsina Russo, Angelo Donvito, Rosa Lasaponara
The paper deals with a multi-scale, multi-sensor remote sensing approach, based on the integration of satellite data and proximal imaging sensing technologies with the aim to support the management of historical and archaeological parks with a focus on: analysing the health and changes in the tree; assessing the biomechanical stability of monumental trees; identifying critical issues at the vegetation-monument interface areas. The Colosseum Park in Rome is one of the scenarios-laboratories selected. The obtained results are the following: (i) the integration between the diverse sensors, in a...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.035
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Raffaele Persico, Gianfranco Morelli, Giuseppe Esposito, Ilaria Catapano
This contribute proposes a heuristic strategy for processing GPR data referred to scenarios characterized by strong buried discontinuities, for which the common assumption of a homogeneous soil drives to errors in the imaging. This can be the case of layered media or the case of electrically large buried cavities. Here, the focus is on the buried cavities and a combined time-depth conversion strategy, which is able to account for the different propagation velocities in the cavity and in the surrounding soil, is proposed. Results referred to simulated data provide a preliminary assessment of...
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· 2023
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.034
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Andrea Luca Bartolo, Charlene Vella
The most recent discovery of six privately owned panel paintings potentially associated with Sicilian Renaissance artist Antonio de Saliba s (1466/7 – c. 1535) now dismembered 1515 titular altarpiece for the Franciscan Observant Church in Rabat, Malta, along with the two central panels of the same altarpiece that are found within the church, has made it possible to fill in gaps in art-historical research on Renaissance art in Malta. It also allows for comparisons with Antonio’s documented 1503-04 Taormina Polyptych at the Church of St Nicholas of Bari, simultaneously generating new interest...
TC4 MetroArchaeo 2023
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· 2023
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.033
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