3D Reconstructions of Cimmerian Bosporus Painted Crypts

The authors present 3d reconstructions of the painted tombs of Cimmerian Bosporus, state, which existed in the North Black Sea area in VI century B.C. - V century A.D. Crypts, was found and investigated by Russian historians in second half of XIX - beginning of XX centuries. Reconstructions are executed on the basis the archive materials, which are stored in the Institute of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences in St.-Petersburg. Crypts were lost because of political events at the beginning of XX century. Of special interest among available material, on basis of which was conducted computer reconstruction, are the aquarelles and gouaches of Russian artists XIX - XX of centuries The computer reconstructions of crypts are executed with the aid of the application 3Ds Max. With the visual materials of Cimmerian Bosporus Painted Crypts project it is possible to become acquainted on project’s site http://www.bosporuscrypt.ru/ (in Russian) and on the site http://www.3DMultimediaLab.com