Images of eternity in 3D

• Main Author: Lucarelli, Rita
• Other Authors: Universität Leipzig, Ägyptologisches Institut
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2016
• Subjects: 3D; Photogrammetrie; Sarkophag; Ikonografie; ägyptische funeräre Texte; photogrammetry; coffin; iconography; Egyptian funerary texts; ddc:930
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201685; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201685; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/20168/5.1.%20DHEgypt15%20-%20Lucarelli%2C%20Images%20of%20Eternity%20in%203D.pdf

By using the technique of photogrammetry for the 3D visualization of ancient Egyptian coffins decorated with magical texts and iconography, this project aims at building up a new digital platform for an in-depth study of the ancient Egyptian funerary culture and its media. It has started in August 2015 through the support of a Mellon Fellowship for the Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley and up until now it has focused on ancient Egyptian coffins kept at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of UC Berkeley. The main outcome will be a digital platform that allows to display a coffin in 3D and where users will be able to pan, rotate, and zoom in on the coffin, clicking on areas of text to highlight them and view an annotated translation together with other metadata (transcription of the hieroglyphic text, bibliography, textual variants, museological data, provenance, etc.)